And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
“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 you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
“A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”
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