“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“For you, a thousand times over”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.”
― The Forty Rules of Love
― The Forty Rules of Love
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