All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.