One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
KHALED HOSSEINII finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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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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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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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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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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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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There is a way to be good again.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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