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.
KHALED HOSSEINILike a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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There is a way to be good again.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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