I’m so afraid. Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening… They only let you this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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The Kite Runner
A collection of lectures presented during the 1960s explores the roots of the American counter-cultural movement
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Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
It’s wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don’t know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.
A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.
It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
I’m so afraid. Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening… They only let you this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
I’m so afraid. Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening… They only let you this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break.
It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.