It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
KHALED HOSSEINIIt was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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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’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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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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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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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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
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