The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

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

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

Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.