The Persistence of the Past

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.

Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.

Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

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 unannounced in the middle of the night.

Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner