“For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“That was when I learned that, in America, you don't reveal the ending of the movie, and if you do, you will be scorned and made to apologize profusely for having committed the sin of Spoiling the End.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.”
― The Dragonbone Chair
― The Dragonbone Chair
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