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61 " He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. "
― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed
62 " If you were the poor, suffering was your currency. "
63 " All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. "
64 " But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. "
65 " Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly. "
66 " She considers for a minute before saying, "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. I should have been more kind. "
67 " If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside. "
68 " A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. "
69 " She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. “Nothing like life, in other words,” he said. “There, it’s questions with either no answers or messy ones. "
70 " She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups. "
71 " 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 she had on me. "
72 " She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences that welled up between their words, sometimes cold and hollow, sometimes pregnant with things that went unsaid, like a cloud filled with rain that never fell. "
73 " You say their stories, it is gift they give you. "
74 " It was madness.Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. "
75 " At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. "
76 " People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine. "
77 " So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. "
78 " I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. "
79 " A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life. "
80 " 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 lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride. "