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.
KHALED HOSSEINIIt may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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.
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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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I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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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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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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