“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”

—  Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

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