“I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.”

—  Khaled Hosseini, book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

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