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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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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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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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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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.
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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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