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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Khaled Hosseini

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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Change Different Life Myself Open Talk
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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Attention Flower Pathetic See View Water
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
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Change Improvement Internet Invention Joke Laughter Old War
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Detail Greedy Theft Time
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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Charity Heart Humility Judgement Live Person See Time Well
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.
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End Novel Play Purpose Role Thinking Understand Writing
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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Empty Night Place Reality Rise Summer Tears Throat
Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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Act Expectation Hero Love People Way
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Charm Deep Thinking Time Wisdom Yourself
War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Demand Peace Time War
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Bloom Fade Flower Live Spring
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Beautiful Herself Power Tea
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Easy Fragile Goodness Life Lost
It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
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Afraid Deep Funny Guide Live People Wisdom
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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Fiction Greatness Lying Truth Writing

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

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