“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
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“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
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“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
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“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. 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."
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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“She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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“They say, 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.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
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The Starry Night
Sylvia Plath __________ Born : October 27, 1932 Died : February 11, 1963 __________ pseudonym Victoria Lucas, American poet whose best-known works, starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to her personal experiences. Plath…
Sylvia Plath
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Continued...
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Continued...
“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
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“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
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“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
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“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
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“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
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