[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

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.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Bella: I love you. Edward: You are my life now.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, you're probably in the wrong bathroom.

You want something enough that you’re going to hurt, then you stay, and keep it.

I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise