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“One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Everyone wants you here. We have a saying in Farsi. It translates ‘your place was empty.â€� We say it when we miss somebody."
I sniffed.
"Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“Suicide isn't the only way you can lose someone to depression.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“But the wall weren't just inside of him.
They were between us.
I didn't know how to breach them.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“And so it was that, about a week later, we crossed a strip of warm, black tarmac and I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But the walls weren't just inside of him.
They were between us.
I didn't know how to breach them.”
― Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay

“I wanted to pull him close, hold him, tell him the world had been unkind to him, not the other way around.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner