Here are few from one of my fav. books - The Kite Runner:

1. There is a way to be good again.

2. For you, a thousand times over.

3. A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

4. ......Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.

5. It's a dangerous business making promises to children.

6. Everyone here is a story teller.

7. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

8. Tell him i'll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place.

9. There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft...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. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing!

10. 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.

11. There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break.

12. Life goes on unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, nah-kam, crises or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

13. One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

14. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

15. But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.
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