"I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princ…"

"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."

"Laila: It isn't fair."

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise…"

"There is a way to be good again."

"For you, a thousand times over."

"I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my f…"

"Is this about you and Hassan? I know there's something going on between you two, but whatever it is, you have to deal…"

"Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, n…"

"Hassan's not going anywhere. He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family…"