I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
KHALED HOSSEINIA story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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 have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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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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But then it passed, as all things do.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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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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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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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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