One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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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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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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