Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. - Khaled Hosseini

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

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.