the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.

I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.