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I 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.

Khaled Hosseini

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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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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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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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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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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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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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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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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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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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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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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