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Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.


Khaled Hosseini

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
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and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
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there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
...
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Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps ov...
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the g...
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and there I’ll lay you down,
I’ll dress you all in yel...
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Just figure out what works for you!
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as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants...
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That Nature doesn’t exist,
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you'll meet things that scare you right out of...
DR. SEUSS Be gentle,
always delicate
with every soul
you meet,
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To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;...
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"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll...
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Mutate leather thick skin
There is a higher power however
...
EVY MICHAELS He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass...
KRISTEN HENDERSON I know
you deserve better than me. You think I don’t know that? But
if there was any w...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Your art…” I gaped at the field of white. “There was a lovely portrait of me—right there.”...
RICK RIORDAN How you die out in me:

down to the last
worn-out
knot of breath
you're th...
PAUL CELAN My pipe is out, my glass is dry;
My fire is almost ashes too;
But once again, before you go, ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out o...
DR. SEUSS But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime!
And there (they trust) t...
RUPERT BROOKE Ash, ash —-
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there——

A ca...
SYLVIA PLATH I’ll be there someday, I can go the distance.
I will find my way, if I can be strong.
I ...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY Right!"
"Right!"
"You can get there!"
"I can get there!"
"You're a natural at co...
TERRY PRATCHETT Where are You Now? I was there whilst you cried,

I was there to comfort you with smile, LUISA NATASHA PARKER Lady Talaith. Is that what you’re wearing to dinner tonight?”
...
“And exactly when ...
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Even if I’ll be unable to See,

I swear, I’ll find you A...
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A bear hug for you,
and I would make you forget your sorrows!
I’ll ...
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I’ll have all the ice cream and tea,
And I’ll laugh with mys...
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I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,<...
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There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel th...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You know that because you asked me out, you’re the one who has to pick the place, right?”
T...
STEPHANIE PERKINS I’ll find you—

Keep calling for me, Viola—

Cuz here I come.
PATRICK NESS gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"
'Is there a chorus?'
"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' ...
TERRY PRATCHETT I was thrown into a state of sheer, mindless panic. “It’s my mother!” I whispered fiercely, JEANIENE FROST ...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
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“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT "There Is A Voice Inside Of You
That Whispers All Day Long,
"I Feel That This Is Right For M...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE

Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
T.S. ELIOT Good God, you don’t give up.”
“Nope.”
I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his
...
J. LYNN Everything we say and do affects people.
It can be either physically or mentally.
Words ca...
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ALAN MOORE Soul Alone by Hannah Baker

I meet your eyes
you don't even see me
You hardly re...
JAY ASHER In myths, the hero survives.
The evil is vanquished.
The world is set right.
Sometime...
V.E. SCHWAB Worldly Wisdom

Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?
KAMAND KOJOURI All that you are
forever to Be,
Is prior to...
and just beyond
Infinity.
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JEANIENE FROST Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underne...
SHANNON DELANY Bilbo’s Last Song

Day is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD I tried to warn you,

But girls never listen.

Got your innocence insured?
...
WENDY HIGGINS They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived t...
KHALED HOSSEINI … MOM!” Martha finally screamed. “Mom, you’ve got to see these!”

“Is it about...
REBECCA MCNUTT And behold you were within me,
and I out of myself,
and there I searched for you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
an...
DR. SEUSS Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly.

...
PATRICK O'BRIAN girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
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Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
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God and I in space alone . . .
and nobody else in view . . .
"And wh...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is always a storm before a calm.
There is always a darkness before daylight.
There ...
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who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen ...
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'Yes?'
'You staked a vampire w...
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at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit...
SUZANNE COLLINS If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll shar...
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There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM I honor you for every time
this year you:

got back up
vibrated higher
shin...
LALAH DELIA My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don’t care that they are naked.
The...
ANDREA GIBSON In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG did you think i was a city
big enough for a weekend getaway
i am the town surrounding it RUPI KAUR You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity

The most modern European is you Pope ...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw,
Here and there a patch of sn...
CHRISTOPHER PEARCE CRANCH We shall not sip from the same glass,
No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace ...
ANNA AHKMATOVA There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Blue Bird
from The Last Night of the Earth Poems

there’s a bluebird in my hear...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe.

silence

and stars

A...
BETH REVIS And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER When you are doing all that you know to do

yet all hell is breaking out around you,
SANJO JENDAYI Your half empty..

A broken glass,

I love you can sound so beautiful

BRITTANY WILLIAMS I’ll give you one chance to run,
but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear…
RYAN GOODRICH ...I don't understand this gap you see between us, but can't you meet me somewhere in the middle?" KIERSTEN WHITE I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer...
PABLO NERUDA I am from there. I am from here.
I am not there and I am not here.
I have two names, which...
MAHMOUD DARWISH Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.<...
VERA NAZARIAN Uncle Vernon rounded on Harry. “And you?”
“I’ll be in my bedroom, making no nois...
J.K. ROWLING Thanks,” I muttered and added under my breath, “Douchebag.”

He laughed, deep and th...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where ther...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beau...
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"From what?"
"The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
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KHALED HOSSEINI And I wrote you.
Volumes.
Volumes.
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Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
...
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It was always you.
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Give sustenance to me.
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It's the song, they said.
No, the sea, the luxury, the ship.
...
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KHALED HOSSEINI The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what wa...
KHALED HOSSEINI I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let y...
KHALED HOSSEINI Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: si...
KHALED HOSSEINI some stories don't need telling
KHALED HOSSEINI there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When yo...
KHALED HOSSEINI In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
KHALED HOSSEINI War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba
KHALED HOSSEINI I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt ...
KHALED HOSSEINI It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past c...
KHALED HOSSEINI Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
KHALED HOSSEINI Obama's middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels. Does the McCain-Palin campaign...
KHALED HOSSEINI I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a wo...
KHALED HOSSEINI قلب الرجل مثير للأسى،،إنه مثير للأسى يا مريم،،إنه ليس �...
KHALED HOSSEINI Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
KHALED HOSSEINI Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your...
KHALED HOSSEINI Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.”
“Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was anothe...
KHALED HOSSEINI I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they would...
KHALED HOSSEINI Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".
KHALED HOSSEINI The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip...
KHALED HOSSEINI Love is a damaging mistake, and it's accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion" A Thousand Splendid S...
KHALED HOSSEINI When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...
KHALED HOSSEINI I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn...
KHALED HOSSEINI I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...
KHALED HOSSEINI Dia berhenti bicara kepada warga desa, karena dia yakin bahwa mereka menggunjingkannya di belakang p...
KHALED HOSSEINI Sad znam da neki ljudi proživljavaju nesreću onako kao što drugi proživljavaju ljubav: samotno, ...
KHALED HOSSEINI E, no final das contas, a pergunta que acabava sempre se impondo era: como é que eu, entre todas as...
KHALED HOSSEINI Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro.
KHALED HOSSEINI Zendagi migzara. Life goes on.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kau tak tahu apa-apa soal keberanian. Untuk menjadi berani, harus ada yang dipertaruhkan. Aku datang...
KHALED HOSSEINI Katamu kau tak punya keberanian. tapi aku melihatnya di dalam dirimu. Perbuatanmu, beban yang kau ta...
KHALED HOSSEINI I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal’s eyes. Absurdly, I imagine the animal un...
KHALED HOSSEINI Abollah?"

"Ya."

"Kalau aku sudah besar nanti, akankah aku tinggal bersamamu?"<...
KHALED HOSSEINI Aku akan membawanya pulang, pikir Baba Ayub ketika itu juga. Inilah yang paling diinginkannya, bersa...
KHALED HOSSEINI Kulihat peri kecil muram
Di keteduhan pohon kertas.
Kumengenal peri kecil muram
Yang ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Ada sebongkah batu di pinggir ladangnya, dan dia duduk di permukaannya yang datar. Dia kerap duduk d...
KHALED HOSSEINI Dan jika kau miskin, penderitaan menjadi mata uangmu.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kažu pronađi svrhu u životu i ostvari je. Ali katkad, tek nakon što ga proživiš, uvidiš da je...
KHALED HOSSEINI He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.
KHALED HOSSEINI Mereka bernasib naas, memiliki ayah yang lemah. Seorang pengecut yang lebih memilih melihat mereka s...
KHALED HOSSEINI Itukan hanya mimpi Amir agha. Dalam mimpi kita bisa melakukan apa saja - Hassan
KHALED HOSSEINI They only make you so happy when they are about to take something from you
KHALED HOSSEINI I want to scream again, and I remember that last time I felt this way, riding with Baba in the tank ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Seruas jari harus dipotong untuk menyelamatkan tangan.
KHALED HOSSEINI Jika kau sudah hidup selama aku, kau akan mengerti bahwa kekejaman dan kemuliaan hanyalah nuansa yan...
KHALED HOSSEINI I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankf...
KHALED HOSSEINI I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe ag...
KHALED HOSSEINI I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know withi...
KHALED HOSSEINI At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cann...
KHALED HOSSEINI I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't...
KHALED HOSSEINI I found a sad little fairy
Beneath the shade of a paper tree.
I know a sad little fairy KHALED HOSSEINI She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a l...
KHALED HOSSEINI I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of...
KHALED HOSSEINI He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms in...
KHALED HOSSEINI But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not,...
KHALED HOSSEINI The finger cut, to save the hand.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.
KHALED HOSSEINI