Rand dawoud

“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“يا الهي ما أقواك وما أضعفنا.. كأنك تقذفنا من السماء فنجهد من بعد أن نرتفع بأنفسنا على أجنحة الأعمال التي تطير بجاذبية مما تحب!
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― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, المساكين

“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