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“We should live here.’ After just two days of the possibilities of Venice, I said, ‘We should live here.’ And Tom’s answer was, ‘We should fly to the moon.’ But he was smiling.”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“Love each other or perish.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Then he took my fingers from his lips and, pressing them against his groin, he asked, “Can you share?” “Share?” “Can you share me?” I felt him harden, and I nodded. “If that’s what it takes. Yes. I can share.” And then I was on my knees before him.”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“I laughed. ‘For a policeman, you’re very romantic.’
‘For an artist, you’re very afraid,’ he said.”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Dunno much about art." "You don't have to. That's the wonderful thing about it. It's about reacting to it. Feeling it, if you like. It's not really anything to do with knowledge”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“Love wins, love always wins.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“(...) and of course the sea, always different, always the same.”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“You’re going to make a wonderful portrait,’ I said. ‘Quite wonderful.”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
― Mitch Albom

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Then he smiled. ‘Were you really dreaming of me?”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“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 ather. 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, The Kite Runner

“There is a way to be good again

For you, a thousand times over

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy." Why?
"Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me-even in my current condition.
"I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“We're Tuesday people.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?'" He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. "Is today the day I die?" he said.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“if you are unwilling to change, do not enter into philosophical arguments”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“Early on she learned that there was no fight more hurtful than a family fight, and no family fight more hurtful than one over God.”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“She would rather stay home and, in the witching hours, be immersed in a novel –reading being her way to connect with the universe.”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“She had always suspected that even the calmest and sweetest women under stress were prone to outbursts of violence. Since she thought of herself as neither calm nor sweet, she had reckoned that her potential to lose control was considerably greater than theirs.”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“Certainty was to curiosity what the sun was to the wings of Icarus. Where one shone forcefully, the other couldn’t survive. With certainty came arrogance; with arrogance, blindness; with blindness, darkness; and with darkness, more certainty.”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“absolutism of all kinds is a weakness,”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“In the name of religion they are killing God”
― Elif Shafak