"One time, when I was very 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."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Mother Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Book Quotes

“That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.”
“The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.”
“A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.”
“Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.”

Source : Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.69, Library of America
“You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.”
“I saw God! Do you doubt it? Do you dare to doubt it? I saw the Almighty Man! His hand Was resting on a mountain!”
“Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"”
“The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.”

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