Books Read in August 2011

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Favorite Lines:

"When you learn how to die you earn how to live"

Tension of Opposites - " Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing but you are bound to do something else?

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Favorite Lines:

"the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion"

"...of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting."

The Appointment by Herta Mueller (Author is 2009 Noble Prize Winner)

For One More Day by Mitch Albom.

Favorite Lines:

"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."

"A child should never have to choose." (context in this book : Daddy's boy or Mommy's boy)

"You can go through your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. "