Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
KHALED HOSSEINIWhether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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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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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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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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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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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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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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