““I decided that I had been foolish to be ashamed of Baba, to let my need for security conquer every other instinct. I had spent years nursing the wrong fears. Baba's Iranianness, his village ways, weren't the problem. Just the opposite: if Baba were to uproot, every special thing about him - the Ardestoon he carried in his easy gait and his yellow fingers and his lion cane - all of that would be lost. Home would be lost. Living in American or Europe would end him, his lofty, infectious personality, his wonderful sense of himself. Deep down, Baba must have known this.””
![“All my life, I [Pari] have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent. I have been free to observe the glimmering world on the other side, to picture myself in it, if I like. But I have always been contained, hemmed in, by…” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd9/khaled-hosseini-251_day-by-day_all-my-life-i-pari-have-lived-like-an-aq_566184.jpg)
