The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

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,” Baba said. “You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

Rumi, Hãfez, Saadi, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Ian Fleming.

And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

“Zendagi migzara,”

sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime,

always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.