you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.