“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“For you, a thousand times over”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“There is a way to be good again...”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“But isn’t being alone closer to the truest version of ourselves, when we’re not linked to another, not diluted by their presence and judgments? We form relationships with others, friends, family. That’s fine. Those relationships don’t bind the way love does. We can still have lovers, short-term. But only when alone can we focus on ourselves, know ourselves. How can we know ourselves without this solitude?”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“People talk about the ability to endure. To endure anything and everything, to keep going, to be strong. But you can do that only if you're not alone. That's always the infrastructure life's built on. A closeness with others. Alone it all becomes a struggle of mere endurance.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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