• the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

    Khaled Hosseini: the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
    Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing