• “Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”

Hāfiz PERSIAN POET

• “They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”

― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

• “One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”

― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

• “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner