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"... A year and a half since we'd stepped off the Boeing from Peshawar, and Baba was still adjusting. ... I glanced at him across the table, his nails chipped and black from engine oil, his knuckles scraped, the smells of the gas station…
"Here is another cliche my creative writing teacher would have scoffed at: like father, like son. But it was true, wasn't it? As it turned out, Baba and I were more alike than I'd ever known. We had both betrayed the people who would…
For you a thousand times over.
"But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer. I hope your suffering comes to an end with this journey to Afghanistan." (Hosseini, 315)
"For you, a thousand times over."
"... but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out." -'Amir'
"For you a thousand times over!" he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. The next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty-six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph.
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take…
Then I realized something: that thought had brought no sting with it. Closing Sohrab's door, I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away…
"It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. Any tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With…
EuSei
Assef knelt behind Hassan, put his hands on Hassan's hips and lifted his bare buttocks. He kept one hand on Hassan's back and undid his own belt buckle with his free hand. He unzipped his jeans. Dropped his underwear. He positioned…
EuSei
"What a tight little sugary cunt she had!" the soldier was saying.
pg. 202 "There is only what you do and what you don't do," I said. Rahim Khan laughed. "You sounded like your father just now. I miss him so much. But it is God's will, Amir jan. It really is." pg. 231 "I feel like a tourist in my own…
AmandaVollmershausen
''and that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.''
"Sad stories make good books."
"There is a way to be good again."
"For you, a thousand times over."