Laura Douglas

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box

“If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is no land like the land of your childhood.”
― Michael Powell

“Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner