Jalil In A Thousand Splendid Suns Quotes & Sayings

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers. — Michael Marshall Smith

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary. — Christopher Walken

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If I have to live with it, then how can it be unbearable? — Aliya Whiteley

I told myself that it took forty-two facial muscles to frown and only four to stretch out my arm and bitch-slap the witch. — Kathy Lette

Listening to all words
the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture
can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current. — Kathleen Norris