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.
KHALED HOSSEINIWar doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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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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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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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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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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