But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEINII 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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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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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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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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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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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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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