“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”

—  Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

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