She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers h…

Khaled Hosseini
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She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). A Thousand Splendid Suns, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing
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