Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child. Khaled Hosseini
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In this quote, the author describes his need to feel the presence of their pregnant wife. The author states that he could "almost feel the emptiness" in Soraya's womb and that it was a living, breathing thing that had seeped into their marriage and into their lives together. He describes how late at night he would feel a "living, breathing thing," rising from his wife and setting between them. He wanted to feel the presence of their child in their bed, but he also felt a "rising from Soraya" and a "setting between us." In essence, he was feeling everything that is going on inside of his wife and wishing there was some way for him to be a part of it.

Source: The Kite Runner

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