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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 965ce71 | It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir," he said." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7d2c16d | The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies. | reputation | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 3da2f43 | Entering my childhood home is a little disorienting, like reading the end of a novel that I'd started, then abandoned, long ago. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 33504fb | Father's world was unsparing. Nothing good came free, even love. You paid for all things, and if you were poor, suffering was your currency. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 806f0f0 | They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| dc18d5a | And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5a54322 | Laila imagines she sees little Mariam there in the hut as a woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but SHAPED by by the turbulence that washes over her. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b67dbb4 | And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir Jan, when guilt leads to good. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 779dbc6 | I was like the patient who cannot explain to the doctor where it hurts, only that it does. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7eac572 | Make morning into a key and throw it into the well, Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. Let the morning sun forget to rise in the east, Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a02321e | Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head. | danger irony | Khaled Hosseini | |
| a08d5c1 | He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a561f05 | You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 26f0b9f | She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d8f1551 | That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2c60d60 | l`dw lwHyd ldh~ ltstTy` 'fGnstn hzymth hw nfsh | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8e37c62 | I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6207ec3 | I do it for the girls." "What girls?" He smirked. "They think it's sexy." "It's not." "No?" "I assure you." "Not sexy?" "You look khila, like a half-wit." "That hurts," he said. "What girls anyway?" "You're jealous." "I'm indifferently curious." "You can't be both." He took another drag and squinted through the smoke. "I'll bet they're talking about us now." In Laila's head, Mammy's voice rang out. Like a mynah bird in your hands. Slacken y.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0443b50 | For an hour or two every Thursday, when Jalil came to see her, all smiles and gifts and endearments, Mariam felt deserving of all the beauty and bounty that life had to give. And, for this, Mariam loved Jalil. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 32488d3 | Por ti lo haria mil veces mas | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0669b2c | How quietly we endure all that falls upon us. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e6ac281 | The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively, the will of man and the lunacy of God. | James Hilton | ||
| 21ebf13 | As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer. | James Hilton | ||
| 95fc379 | For London, Blampied claimed, was of all cities in the world the most autumnal --its mellow brickwork harmonizing with fallen leaves and October sunsets, just as the etched grays of November composed themselves with the light and shade of Portland stone. There was a charm, a deathless charm, about a city whose inhabitants went about muttering, "The nights are drawing in," as if it were a spell to invoke the vast, sprawling creature-comfort .. | london november october winter | James Hilton | |
| f70dcbe | Do women dress for men or women? I've always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satisfactorily answered because it is incorrectly posed. It's disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesn't matter where it comes from. | women | Nancy Friday | |
| f4dc0b6 | the gray rain-storm which looked as if it would go on forever and ever. She watched it so long and steadily that the grayness grew heavier and heavier before her eyes and she fell asleep. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9a3a386 | Solo muy de vez en cuando se puede estar seguro de que se va a vivir para siempre jamas, y esa es una de las curiosidades de la vida. A veces sucede cuando uno se levanta al amanecer, ese momento de meliflua solemnidad, y se sale al jardin y se queda uno alli quieto y solo; y se levanta mucho la mirada, mas y mas arriba, y se observa como muda de color el palido cielo azul, sonrojandose, como va sucediendo lo insolito y maravilloso, hasta q.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9989e49 | the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 75efd33 | Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 39d74f6 | In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any other century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they see it can be done- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. O.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0b67207 | But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born. And that is best of all, Ceddie, -- it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived -- even ever so little better, dearest. | frances hodgson burnett | ||
| c0b2d8b | Lottie was so delighted that she quite forgot her first shocked impression of the attic. In fact, when she was lifted down from the table and returned to earthly things, as it were, Sara was able to point out to her many beauties in the room which she herself would not have suspected the existence of. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5aba8bd | I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out, 'Oh, a horrid rat!' I shouldn't like people to scream and jump and say, 'Oh, a horrid Sara!' the moment they saw me. And set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 02c37fd | Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time--even in school. She says it makes her learn her lessons better. She wants Ermengarde to be one, too, but Ermengarde says she is too fat. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 7fee8c3 | The essence of bigotry is denying others the same rights you claim for yourself. Green bigots are a classic example. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| a6d0e7c | The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| be47762 | A very distinct pattern has emerged repeatedly when policies favored by the anointed turn out to fail. This pattern typically has four stages: STAGE 1. THE "CRISIS": Some situation exists, whose negative aspects the anointed propose to eliminate. Such a situation is routinely characterized as a "crisis," even though all human situations have negative aspects, and even though evidence is seldom asked or given to show how the situation at han.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| b26a344 | While "greed" is one of the most popular--and most fallacious--explanations of the very high salaries of corporate executives, when your salary depends on what other people are willing to pay you, you can be the greediest person on earth and that will not raise your pay in the slightest. Any serious explanation of corporate executives' salaries must be based on the reasons for those salaries being offered, not the reasons why the recipients.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 4aeb326 | No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries. | norms | Thomas Sowell | |
| f085f0a | The term "liberal" originally referred politically to those who wanted to liberate people--mainly from the oppressive power of government. That is what it still means in various European countries or in Australia and New Zealand. It is the American meaning that is unusual: People who want to increase the power of government, in order to accomplish various social goals." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| ca0d3a9 | Alaska is much larger than France and Germany--combined. Yet its population is less than one-tenth that of New York City. Keep that in mind the next time you hear some environmentalist hysteria about the danger of "spoiling" Alaska by drilling for oil in an area smaller than Dulles Airport." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| cdb3a6e | Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right--creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent. | entitlement fervor political reward right | Thomas Sowell | |
| ece0563 | I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it's an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice. | well-being | Andrew Weil | |
| 24d44d0 | Talk away. If you bore us, we have books." With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it." | E.M. Forster |