After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.