"So it would begin. The obligatory questions, the perfunctory answers. Both pretending. Unenthusiastic partners, the two of them, in this tired old dance."

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

“…he did stress, sometimes with the help of a stripped willow branch, that we had to pronounce the Arabic words correctly so God would hear us better.”

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini