Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
KHALED HOSSEINISome stories don’t need telling.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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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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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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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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There is a way to be good again.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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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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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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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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