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 HOSSEINIShe was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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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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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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.
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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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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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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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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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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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