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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #2
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #3
    Ian McEwan
    “A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #4
    Ian McEwan
    “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #5
    Ian McEwan
    “...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #6
    Ian McEwan
    “Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #7
    Ian McEwan
    “And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #8
    Ian McEwan
    “I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #9
    Ian McEwan
    “She lay in the dark and knew everything.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #10
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #11
    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #12
    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #13
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #14
    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #15
    Khaled Hosseini
    “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
    Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #16
    Khaled Hosseini
    “it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #17
    Khaled Hosseini
    “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.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #18
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #19
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #20
    Khaled Hosseini
    “A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #21
    Khaled Hosseini
    “There is a way to be good again...”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #22
    Khaled Hosseini
    “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. - Amir”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #23
    Khaled Hosseini
    “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.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #24
    Khaled Hosseini
    “People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #25
    Khaled Hosseini
    “A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #26
    Khaled Hosseini
    “It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #27
    Khaled Hosseini
    “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.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #28
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #29
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

  • #30
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
    Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns



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