Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. - Khaled Hosseini

"Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

"I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.