“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“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.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction.”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
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