Sophie

“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.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But even when he wasn't around, he was.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Love?' he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.”
― Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply