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It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

Khaled Hosseini

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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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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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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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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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.
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
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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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