"Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Textbooks Quotes #Littles Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.”

Source : "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.
“God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.”
“When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?”
“A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.”
“I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
“You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?”
“Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.”
“I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.”

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