Literary Devices in A Thousand Splendid Suns

"I'll throw up," Laila laughed. "I'm too excited."

“Mammy was now the curator of their lives’ museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor.”

"The thump, thump"

“They had played it for so long it had become a bedtime ritual, like brushing teeth”

"You are the sultan of my heart, the sultan of my heart.”

"Rasheeds true nature was revealed progressively. He went from being respectful to a monster."

Tariq said that one of the men who shared his cell has a cousin who’d been publicly flogged once for painting flamingos.

“She noticed that every time she breathed out, the surface fogged. And she disappeared from her father’s table”

“The nose of the car pointed up”

“And, with that, Mariam brought down the shovel This time, she gave it everything she had.”

"She listened to the click-clack of his heels"

"His nails were yellow-brown, like the inside of a rotting apple"

“It swelled and swelled until all the loss”

“It wasn’t your fault, it wasn’t your fault”

"Blessed is He in Whose hand is in the kingdom."

“Treacherous daughters did not deserve to be mothers and this was just punishment.”

“That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul.”