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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Khaled Hosseini

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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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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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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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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 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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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