There is a way to be good again.
I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.