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
Life’s Unpredictability
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The Consequences of Actions
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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.
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
The Value of Standing Up
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
The Loss of Innocence
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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
The Nature of Forgiveness
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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.
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
The Persistence of the Past
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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
Kindness and Self-Worth
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You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
Kathryn Stockett – The Help
Women’s Limitless Potential
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There is no limit to what a woman can accomplish.
Kathryn Stockett – The Help
The Nature of Ugliness
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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
Kathryn Stockett – The Help
Daily Choice for Belief
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Every morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision…You gone have to ask yourself, ‘Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?
Kathryn Stockett – The Help