Farah Bukhari

“It's a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Entering my childhood home is a little disorienting, like reading the end of a novel that I’d started, then abandoned, long ago.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that wil carry him into places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“He's a boy, you see, and, as such, what does he care about reputation? But you? The reputation of a girl, especially one as pretty as you, is a delicate thing, Laila. Like a mynah bird in your hands. Slacken your grip and away it flies.

Fariba to her daughter Laila”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns