Aku harus berkonsentrasi, tidak boleh melakukan kesalahan.
There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a fat...
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
I will follow you to the ends of the world.
How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.
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. - Amir
They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.
She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
I loved wintertime in Kabul. I loved it for the soft pattering of snow against my window at night, for the way fresh snow crunched under my black rubber boots, for the warmth of the cast-iron stove as...
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
Yüreği çöküverdi, ta ayaklarının dibine kadar.
Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...
It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost