Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
KHALED HOSSEININot a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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