We had been given, in our heavens, our simplest dreams.
Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
Simple Dreams in Heaven
S
World Without Me
W
I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it.
Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
Under the Earth
U
There was one moment, and I remember, when I was under in the earth, outside its green proscenium, its wind-washed curtains.
Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
Expanding Heart
E
The heart’s not like a box that gets filled up. It expands in size the more you love.
Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
The Nature of Sin
T
There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
Life’s Unpredictability
L
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
The Consequences of Actions
T
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
T
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
T
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
The Nature of Forgiveness
T
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