Abd Elhamid

“That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“He loathed Jimmy Carter, whom he called a “big-toothed cretin.” In 1980, when we were still in Kabul, the U.S. announced it would be boycotting the Olympic Games in Moscow. “Wah wah!” Baba exclaimed with disgust. “Brezhnev is massacring Afghans and all that peanut eater can say is I won’t come swim in your pool.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Night and Sleep

“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