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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fb9be7d | As for Women that do not think their own Safety worth their Thought, that impatient of their present State, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes, that run into Matrimony, as a Horse rushes into the Battle, I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a Sort of Ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd People... | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 209795a | I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases, viz. that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; nor ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 4d966b1 | How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man! and by what secret different springs are the affections hurried about, as different circumstances present! To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 00402e8 | And so it stood, a warm and vivid patch in his life, casting a radiance that glowed in a thousand recollections. | James Hilton | ||
| 6f4de3e | rGm 'nh knt hnk lHZt mn ljml fyh, `rft mrym 'n lHy@ bm`Zmh knt qsy@ m`h.. lknh bynm knt tmshy lkhTwt l`shryn l'khyr@, lm tstT` mn` nfsh mn 'n ttmn~ lmzyd mnh ... | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0db87cd | could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink your aspirations before your very eyes. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2ec847d | 14- Just as he didn't understand why a wave of something, something like the tail end of a sad dream, always swept through him whenever he heard the jingling, surprising him each time like an unexpected gust of wind. But then it passes, as all things do, it passed | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 82df4b1 | For a few unfortunate kids, winter did not spell the end of the school year. There were the so-called voluntary winter courses. No kid I knew ever volunteered to go to these classes; parents, of course, did the volunteering for them. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 36394a6 | I laughed. Clutched him in a hug and planted a kiss on his cheek. "What was that for?" he said; startled, blushing. I gave him a friendly hug, smiled. "You're a prince, Hassan. You're a prince and I love you." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6505998 | I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive. | khaled-hosseini thankful | Khaled Hosseini | |
| d90dc80 | If I've learned anything in Kabul, it is that human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 697cf75 | mn byn kl lmS`b lty ywjhh lmr , l shy' 'qs~ mn f`l lntZr lbsyT | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0f4ecb3 | 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 | ||
| 6d8dee7 | In Tariq's grimace, Laila learned that boys differed from girls in this regard. They didn't make a show of friendship. They felt no urge, no need, for this sort of talk... Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e81c60a | war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts of supposed heroes and villains, each new hero making one increasingly nostalgic for the old villain. The names changed, as did the faces, and I spit on them equally for all the petty feuds, the snipers, the land mines, bombing raids, the rockets, the looting and raping and killing. | heroes justice kabul war | Khaled Hosseini | |
| c611b1e | Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 53593cc | I was an only, and often lonely, child. After they'd had me, my parents, who'd met back in Pakistan when they were both around forty, had decided against tempting fate a second time. I remember how I would eye with envy all the kids in our neighborhood, in my school, who had a little brother or sister. How bewildered I was by the way some of them treated each other, oblivious to their own good luck. They acted like wild dogs. Pinching, hitt.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| cc223bb | He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a0a793e | Fragment ui Duizend schitterende zonnen. | Hosseini Khaled | ||
| 87afed6 | How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 320477c | wjdt jny@ SGyr@ tHt Zl wrq@ shjr@ '`rf jny@, SGyr@ wHzyn@ Tyunrth lryH fy lyl@ shtwy@ | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ddd9a5a | He's a boy, you see, and, as such, what does he care about reputation? But you? The reputation of a girl, especially one as pretty as you, is a delicate thing, Laila. Like a mynah bird in your hands. Slacken your grip and away it flies. Fariba to her daughter Laila | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4e3332d | For you, a thousand times over (Bareh tu hazar dafa) | inspirational | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 820f983 | I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bfa8bee | with a thug of a string, i'd cut loose my pain, my longing... | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 57f6790 | I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life. | life-purpose | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 850c6dc | So it would begin. The obligatory questions, the perfunctory answers. Both pretending. Unenthusiastic partners, the two of them, in this tired old dance. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 672ad19 | But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d06f797 | l'Tfl lysw ktban lltlwyn ymknk tlwynh b'lwnk lmfDl@ | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d4b3c89 | Kalau kau membunuh seorang pria kau mencuri kehidupannya. Kau mencuri seorang suami dari istrinya, merampok seorang ayah dari anak-anaknya. Kalau kau menipu, kau mencuri hak seseorang untuk mendapatkan kebenaran. Kalau kau berbuat curang, kau mencuri hak seseorang untuk mendapatkan keadilan. | the-kite-runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| c6df9d1 | Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 9268d1c | He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds. | inspirational reflection-on-life | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 34a6085 | I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were, would be, or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure, the space between their eyes, their chin length, the tip projection of their nose, whether they had an id.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 555db95 | Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4831397 | There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 580acae | Mendimet me arratisen instiktivisht drejt teje. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1f67bf9 | could not picture that Father had once swung on a swing. He could not imagine that Father had once been a boy, like him. A boy. Carefree, light on his feet. Running headlong into the open fields with his playmates. Father, whose hands were scarred, whose face was crosshatched with deep lines of weariness. Father, who might as well have been born with shovel in hand and mud under his nails. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| c8becfb | Sebenarnya aku berusaha menjadi pengecut karena pilihan lainnya, alasan sebenarnya aku melarikan diri, adalah karena Assef mengatakan kebenaran: Tak ada yang gratis di dunia ini. | the-kite-runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| e837c10 | They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him. | old-age teenagers | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 6380d73 | qlb lrjl mthyr ll'sy | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3625ca4 | mn byn kl lmshqt lty ywjhh lshkhS l shy' 'kthr `qban mn f`l lntZr | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fca4a41 | There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a66c59e | That's how children deal with terror. They fall asleep. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a42fa1c | He was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he drained others of theirs. | Khaled Hosseini |