There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
KHALED HOSSEINII should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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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