You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the value of sharing personal stories and experiences as a gift to others.
Khaled Hosseini highlights the importance of storytelling and how it connects individuals through shared experiences. The stories we tell carry our unique perspectives and, when shared, they become gifts that enrich the lives of those who listen, fostering understanding and empathy among people.
In practice
In a speech about community engagement, you might say this quote to emphasize the importance of listening to others.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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