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.
KHALED HOSSEINII suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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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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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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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There is a way to be good again.
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