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“One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one’s silences.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“said a hasty prayer and headed for a wooden bench, there to recover a composure more in keeping with what I was, or what at the time I considered myself to be. Our”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“It’s good to love. It’s bad to be impressionable.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“Is that the true, the supreme terror, to discover that I am the wizened youth whose cries no one can hear?”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“Mi empresa estaba gestionada como los gobiernos, castigando la iniciativa y premiando la nada, haciendo la vista gorda a la negligencia y el dispendio, recortando y no creando…”
― Paloma Bravo, La piel de Mica

“En un mundo sobreinformado, estamos paralizados por la crisis, el estupor y el miedo.”
― Paloma Bravo, La piel de Mica

“pequeños países del Tercer Mundo tienen la posibilidad de despertar un vivo interés sólo cuando se deciden a derramar sangre. Es una triste verdad, pero así es.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, La guerra del fútbol (Colección Endebate)

“I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.”
― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

“Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they’re good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples’ lives for them.”
― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

“If I had my life to live over again, I’d take more chances. I’d want more passion in my life. Less fear and more passion, more risk. Even if you fail, you’ve still taken a risk.”
― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

“Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.”
― W.P. Kinsella

“You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.”
― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

“Once you’ve been touched by the land, the wind never blows so cold again, because your love files the edges off it.”
― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

“I dream of things that never were,”
― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

“but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything—that’s how it is between people who are each other’s first memories, people who have fed from the same breast.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir,” he said.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Sad stories make good books”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“but time can be a greedy thing—sometimes it steals all the details for itself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Rahim, a boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You? You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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

“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything all right. It didn’t make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But I’ll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner