But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEININot a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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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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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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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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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 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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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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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There is a way to be good again.
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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