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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

Khaled Hosseini

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Bloom Fade Flower Live Spring
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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Act Expectation Hero Love People Way
Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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Aspiration Care Expectation Life Oneself Sad Stupidity
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Charm Deep Thinking Time Wisdom Yourself
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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Bury Deep Learning Past Wrong
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Life Peace Quiet Silence Tranquility
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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Choice Decision Hope Moral Oneself People Right Yourself
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Life Peace Quiet Silence Tranquility
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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Count Herself Hide Love Moon Sun Wall Woman
Some stories don’t need telling.
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Need One Liner Story Talk
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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Courage Loss Myself Strength
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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Count Herself Hide Love Moon Sun Wall Woman
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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Deep Goodness Lost Regret Return Wisdom
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Comfortable Hurt Lying Truth
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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Bleed Heart Man Mom Room Yourself
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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End Novel Play Purpose Role Thinking Understand Writing

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