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"...Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."
"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."
"One time, when I was really 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."
"It was Homaira and me against the world... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things."
"For you, a thousand times over.”
“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have one in the first place...”
"I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver."
"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it."
"I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran."
"There is a way to be good again..."
The Kite Runner
o pushtanju zmajeva, odrastanju,ratu i pustoshi koju ostavlja, o obrachunima sa sobom, sazrevanju i suochavanju...
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