And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

I remark that they lack nuance and ambiguity. They read as though they have been crafted with the sole aim of shocking and scandalizing.

Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.

He said that if culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, to all the rooms inside.