"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
". . . she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last."
"Aziza’s face glowed, broadened. “You’re not dumb, Khala Mariam. And Kaka Zaman says that, sometimes, the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it’s powerful and scary down there, but all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.”
--A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
"For you, a thousand times over."
-- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
"It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined."
"This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt."
-- The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
"Yet one thing he was certain about now; between love and peace of mind he would choose the latter. He would prefer a peaceful home. What was better than a place where you could sit down comfortably, read a book, and have a good meal and an unbroken sleep?"
-- Waiting (Ha Jin)
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else."
"Lost love is still love, eddie. it takes a different form, that's all. you can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. but hwen those senses weaken, another heightens. memory. memory becomes your partner. you nurture it. you hold it. you dance with it."
--The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
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