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.
KHALED HOSSEINIAfghanistan 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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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 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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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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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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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 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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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There is a way to be good again.
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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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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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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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