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Kirsten Corley

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Jersey Girl born and raised. Love for reading and writing.
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6,503 quotes curated by Kirsten Corley:

“That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Regret, Good Person
“I suspect the truth is we are waiting, all of us, against unsurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Truth, Waiting, Odds
“You can not stop you from being who you are.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Be yourself
“Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Obstacles, Heroism
“Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Heartless, punishment
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Feel, Teach, Books, Life Lessons
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Trial, Sorrow, Reason, God
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Education, Women
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Waiting, Hardships, Punish
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Love, Wisdom, Illusion, Hope