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“The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day”
― Virginia Woolf

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me”
― Emily Dickinson

“A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Till I loved I never lived.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”
― Emily Dickinson

“A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.”
― Emily Dickinson

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“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

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― 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

“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”
― Emily Bronte

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
― George Eliot

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights