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conviction
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions.†
p. 151.9 *
"You could eat downstairs with the rest of us," he said, but without much conviction.†
p. 40.2
She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.†
p. 151.9
His look was one of conviction, of guileless yet ironclad earnestness.†
p. 183.9
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged: guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.†
p. 186.9

Definitions:

(1) (conviction as in: spoke with conviction)
a strong, firmly held belief
(2) (conviction as in: owed a fine after the conviction)
a court's finding that someone is guilty