Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
KHALED HOSSEININothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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