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.
KHALED HOSSEINIWar doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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There is a way to be good again.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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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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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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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