I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.
("The Kite Runner")
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I'll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I'll have one of my fits. You'll see, I'll swallow my tongue and die. Don't leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I'll die if you go.Khaled Hosseini
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
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Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.
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The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.
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I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
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