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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

Khaled Hosseini

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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Change Fair Life Time Wrong
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Detail Greedy Theft Time
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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Company Difference Silence Talk Word
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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Empty Night Place Reality Rise Summer Tears Throat
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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Alive Deep Family God Gratitude Husband Myself Son Thankful Wife
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Charm Deep Thinking Time Wisdom Yourself
War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Demand Peace Time War
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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Fiction Greatness Lying Truth Writing
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Bloom Fade Flower Live Spring
It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Connection Emotional Tremendous
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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Black Decision Fear Hate Himself Live Love Person Problem See White World
Some stories don’t need telling.
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Need One Liner Story Talk
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Beautiful Herself Power Tea
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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Deep Goodness Lost Regret Return Wisdom
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Beautiful Gift Stupidity

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