War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
KHALED HOSSEINII 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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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There is a way to be good again.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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