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- I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
- Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
- War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba
- 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.…
- it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
- Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
- But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with…
- If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.
- And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
- Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked…
- I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright…
- I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was…
- The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris…
- I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic…
- J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when…
- At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
- The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But…
- She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle