But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEINILike a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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.
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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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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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