Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

Powerful people have no regrets.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\