One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
KHALED HOSSEINI
KHALED HOSSEINI
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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 HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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 HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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 HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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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