“Kabul was fairly peaceful now and Grandpa seemed to have started wasting away since the bombing stopped. For the past twenty-three years the excitement of war had kept him really fit. Now he was giving up.”

“Grandpa, what do you think, who’s a better creation of Allah’s, woman or man?" Mad winked at me, suggesting he knew the answer and was just testing the old man."Woman, my boy. He managed to make woman much more accomplished and better-looking than man. After all, He created Adam first. And whenever you do something for the first time,my boy, you’re bound to make mistakes. You end up with some bits that hang out, some that are protruding, superfluous or missing…You’re bound to do a better job the second time around, especially if you’re God. So it’s obvious that Eve, as His second attempt at creating a human being, has turned out a much better specimen.”

“As we drove around town I felt like the queen of Afghanistan. People were waving at me and the joy felt by the few women we came across radiated through their burkas. Everyone understood this meant more than just the departure of the Taliban from Afghanistan.”

“If there is no miracle in your life..But you have God in your life, it means you have all the miracle in this universe!”

“Regresar resulta un tanto raro. Si uno viaja a alguna parte, no piensa ya en el estado de la gente y de los lugares que se dejan atrás. Pero cuando regresas después de un largo periodo de ausencia, es como un golpe en la cabeza o un terremoto en toda regla. De pronto, todo tiene un aspecto distinto. Las montañas son más bajas, el agua mucho menos profunda, los largos caminos terminan abruptamente, personas que hasta hace poco decían: "Eso tú no lo entiendes. No te entremezcles", te escuchan y asienten amablemente, el póster en la pared, que te ha costado todo tu dinero, ha perdido toda importancia y los ojos de mamá están a la misma altura que los de una misma.”

“Take control of the situation. Be an alpha guy. Instead of—Hell, I don't know which letter of the Greek alphabet you're now, but it's not a good one.(Neal,"A Veil of Glass and Rain")”

“being normal is unnormal but being imperfect is PERFECT! I know I was different and perfect :)”