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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ad681c4 | So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 258cd99 | Seorang anak laki-laki yang tak mampu membela dirinya sendiri akan tumbuh menjadi pria yang tak mampu menghadapi masalah apapun. | the-kite-runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 17e0d0e | lshy hnk fy lkhrj , lshy l lrWfD wwj` lqlb | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| aefe95d | lqran yqwl lHqyq@ y bnty , khlf kl mtHn wkl 'lm nlqh , fn llh Hkm@an fy dhlk. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6a76896 | Dostet darum." I love you. "I love you back," she said. I could hear the smile in her words. "And be careful." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 28ff667 | For you, a thousand times over. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bf41afe | b`D lns ykhbw'wn lt`s@ bnfs lTryq@ lty ykhby' lakhrwn bh lHb , bkhSwSyW@in wHdW@ , wdwn lst`n@ b'y 'Hd `l~ my`Sf bhm. | الحب الحزن الناس ورددت-الجبال-الصدى | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 5548a5f | Takes a donkey to know a donkey. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b68b555 | Es ist besser von der Wahrheit verletzt als mit einer Luge getrostet zu werden. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 7c0188f | The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 64e30c7 | You? You've always been a tourist here, you just didn't know it. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1ea2e5f | He loathed Jimmy Carter, whom he called a "big-toothed cretin." In 1980, when we were still in Kabul, the U.S. announced it would be boycotting the Olympic Games in Moscow. "Wah wah!" Baba exclaimed with disgust. "Brezhnev is massacring Afghans and all that peanut eater can say is I won't come swim in your pool." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0c005e1 | He's a doctor," Timur says. "Ah? It must be shocking for you, then. This hospital." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 77446db | As Khaled Hosseini writes, it's better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. | Andrew Shaffer | ||
| 311e3d6 | l klm@ ttrdd byynn, lys l'nn l njd m nqwlh, w nm l'nn lsn mDTryn lqwl 'y shy_ hkdh tjry l'mwr byn mn ymthl b`Dhm 'wly dhkryt b`D | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ee9bc29 | That night, I waited until Baba fell asleep, and then folded a blanket. I used it as a prayer rug. Bowing my head to the ground, I recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran-verses the mullah had made us commit to memory in Kabul-and asked for kindness from a god I wasn't sure existed. I envied the mullah now, envied his faith and certainty. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 49227fb | And sometimes, when the bell rang for call-over, he would go to the window and look across the road and over the School fence and see, in the distance, the thin line of boys filing past the bench. New times, new names . . . but the old ones still remained . . . Jefferson, Jennings, Jolyon, Jupp, Kingsley Primus, Kingsley Secundus, Kingsley Tertius, Kingston . . . where are you all, where have you all gone to? | James Hilton | ||
| 80f6f05 | These examinations and certificates and so on--what did they matter? And all this efficiency and up-to-dateness--what did that matter, either? Ralston was trying to run Brookfield like a factory--a factory for turning out a snob culture based on money and machines. The old gentlemanly traditions of family and broad acres were changing, as doubtless they were bound to; but instead of widening them to form a genuine inclusive democracy of duk.. | James Hilton | ||
| 334cd4c | I shall be very deeply interested--in due course. | James Hilton | ||
| ee7c15d | My goodness, if you think of all the folks in the world who'd give all they've got to be out of the racket and in a place like this, only they can't out! Are in the prison or are ? | James Hilton | ||
| 8ee9347 | One had to breathe consciously and deliberately, which, though disconcerting at first, induced after a time an almost ecstatic tranquility of mind. The whole body moved in a single rhythm of breathing, walking, and thinking, the lungs, no longer discrete and automatic, were disciplined to harmony with mind and limb. | James Hilton | ||
| c26a6d1 | I remember Mrs. Brool, whose photograph is still in the tuckshop; she served there until an uncle in Australia left her a lot of money. In fact, I remember so much that I often think I ought to write a book. Now what should I call it? 'Memories of Rod and Lines'--eh? [Cheers and laughter. That was a good one, people thought--one of Chips's best.] Well, well, perhaps I shall write it, some day. But I'd rather tell you about it, really. I rem.. | James Hilton | ||
| 9180981 | On the night before the wedding, when Chips left the house to return to his hotel, she said, with mock gravity: "This is an occasion, you know--this last farewell of ours. I feel rather like a new boy beginning his first term with you. Not scared, mind you--but just, for once, in a thoroughly respectful mood. Shall I call you 'sir'--or would 'Mr. Chips' be the right thing? 'Mr. Chips,' I think. Good-bye, then--good-bye, Mr. Chips. . . ." | James Hilton | ||
| 51d782b | Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue... | virtue | James Hilton | |
| 0ac63ba | He was, and he knew it, very quietly in love with the little Manchu. His love demanded nothing, not even reply; it was a tribute of the mind, to which his senses added only a flavor. | James Hilton | ||
| 49265ef | He was forty-eight -- an age at which permanence of habits begins to be predictable. | habits | James Hilton | |
| 1172ade | you're certain, then, that no human affection can outlast a five-year absence?" "It can, undoubtedly," replied the Chinese, "but only as a fragrance whose melancholy we may enjoy." | James Hilton | ||
| ac79cdd | You cannot judge the importance of things by the noise they make. | James Hilton | ||
| 7d0fb7d | You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?" Came the inquiry. "Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?" "It is called Karakal" "I don't think I've ever heard of it. Is is very high?" "Over twenty-eight thousand feet." "Indeed? I didn't realize there would be anything on that scale outside the Himalayas. Has it been properly surveyed? Whose are the measurements?" "Whose would you expect, my dear sir? Is there anything incompa.. | mountains perspective | James Hilton | |
| 7601ef0 | Our feelings about menstruation are the image of what it is to be a woman in this culture. While menstruation and the fear of revealing evidence of loss of body control bear possibilities of humiliation for women of which men are not aware, it is humiliating too to be that sex whose voice and presence carry less significance. It is humiliating to speak the same words as a man and have his heard, and not yours. It is humiliating to feel invi.. | Nancy Friday | ||
| 6426c9e | Before entering Joaquin's house I always reminded myself that this wasn't exactly where I was meant to be, but pit stops are okay on the road of life, aren't they? I thought of myself as some kind of spy, undercover as a girl with low self-esteem, bringing back detailed intelligence reports on the dark side for girls with boyfriends who looked like lesbians and watched Friday Night Lights with them while eating takeout. They could have thei.. | Lena Dunham | ||
| e5fc892 | nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them--the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs...if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... | the-secret-garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 4870f70 | The same day, he took Sara out and bought her a great many beautiful clothes--clothes so grand and rich that only a very young and inexperienced man would have bought them for a mite of a child who was to be brought up in a boarding-school. But the fact was that he was a rash, innocent young man, and very sad at the thought of parting with his little girl, who was all he had left to remind him of her beautiful mother, whom he had dearly lov.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 105788e | Th' world's full o' jackasses brayin' an' they never bray nowt but lies. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 06ec223 | The little ones, who were accustomed to being disdained and ordered out of the way by mature ladies aged ten and twelve, were never made to cry by this most envied of them all. She was a motherly young person, and when people fell down and scraped their knees, she ran and helped them up and patted them, or found in her pocket a bonbon or some other article of a soothing nature. She never pushed them out of her way or alluded to their years .. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 96264c1 | When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| cf51c47 | Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage. "It makes me feel as if some one had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| cd3c0a8 | Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille. | mental outlook perspective | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 16f0b08 | He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He.. | communication courtesy faithfulness husband love marriage regard respect wife | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 606a9ad | I am growing quite fond of him," she said to Ermengarde; "I should not like him to be disturbed. I have adopted him for a friend. You can do that with people you never speak to at all. You can just watch them, and think about them and be sorry for them, until they seem almost like relations. I'm quite anxious sometimes when I see the doctor call twice a day." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9af5f1e | It sounded like something in a book and it did not make Mary feel cheerful. A house with a hundred rooms, nearly all shut up and with their doors locked--a house on the edge of a moor--whatsoever a moor was--sounded dreary. A man with a crooked back who shut himself up also! She stared out of the window with her lips pinched together, and it seemed quite natural that the rain should have begun to pour down in gray | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f8f95b0 | She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything; | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 104770a | Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden--in all the places. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0a235a0 | Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes. | Frances Hodgson Burnett |