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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Zindagi migzara (life goes on)”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Migration is the most natural thing people do, the root of how civilizations, nation-states, and countries were established. The difference, however, is that when white people move, then and now, it’s seen as courageous and necessary, celebrated in history books. Yet when people of color move, legally or illegally, the migration itself is subjected to question of legality. Is it a crime? Will they assimilate? When will they stop?”
― Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

“We think we can bury what we've lost under all the things we can buy.”
― Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

“There is always one moment in childhood,” Graham Greene once wrote, “when the door opens and lets the future in.”
― Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

“You have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not its idea of you.”
― Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen