"A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope."

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Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.402, A&C Black

Khaled Hosseini

#Gratitude Quotes #Eye Quotes #Liquid Quotes

“Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.”

Source : "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.
“I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.”

Source : "Report: Robin Gibb was making 'bucket list' before falling into coma" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.
“I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their ***** off just to have complete artistic freedom. They're just sharing their lives with you through their music. That's the same kind of work that I'm trying to do, in my own weird way.”
“Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.”
“Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower...”
“In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.”

Source : "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.
“Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.”

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