People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
KHALED HOSSEINIShe 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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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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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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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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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