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The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 15, 2026 05:08AM

“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

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“But happiness is a liar, for it makes us believe it will last forever, when it never does.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

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“God’s greatest gift to us is our ability to love others, and to see it happening before your eyes … it’s like watching a garden grow.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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“Some people keep their heart tucked so deep, they hardly know it’s there. But you, you have always worn it like a second skin. Open to the world. You feel it all. The love and pain. The joy and hope and sorrow. It will make your life harder, but it will also make it beautiful.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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