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“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

“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.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“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.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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

“There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them -- "teachable moments".”
― Orrin Woodward

“The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”
― Federico Chini, The Sea Of Forgotten Memories

“...a book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word into image, connecting these images to memories, dreams and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it... The fact that books provide us the place to imagine is critically important, as it is there, in the imagination, that all sense of possibility rests.”
― Joe Meno

“All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only as feelings.”
― Brian Mynott, Just Once, When I Was Little

“What isn't remembered never happened.

Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record.”
― Yoshitoshi ABe

“Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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

“I would have done it for you in a heartbeat”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“We're out of time, Payton. You said it yourself: the only way we'll make it is for us to go into this together. I know we can do this. But I need you to believe it. You need to believe... in us."

Peyton didn't say anything for a long moment, and J.D. could literally hear his heart beating. Then she finally answered.

"It would have to be called Kendall and Jameson."

It took J.D a moment to catch on. Then he grinned. "No way. Jameson and Kendall. It's alphabetical."

"You told our boss that you banged me on top of your desk."

"Kendall and Jameson sounds great”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“I’m not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Never send a boy to do a woman’s job, Irma.” - Payton Kendall”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Prac­tice doesn’t make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.”
― Frank Peretti, Illusion

“She asked him the question she had been asking herself for the past few days. "Why are you being so nice to me now?" J.D. leaned forward in his chair. He gazed directly into her eyes, and Payton suddenly found herself wondering why it had taken him eight years to look at her that way.
"Because you're letting me," he said softly.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life..”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“No one can force you to become a monster – you hurt someone and you create your own demons.”
― Melody Manful, Dominion

“For a moment he wondered, again, if he should just give it all up. Perhaps he should go back to Italy, back to his hiding place. What made him think that he could rejoin the world of daylight?
But he was tired of living in shadows. He was tired of the darkness, and of the things that lived in it. Most of all, he was tired of being alone.”
― L.J. Smith, The Awakening