It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
KHALED HOSSEINIA sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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