For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
KHALED HOSSEINITime can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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I 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.
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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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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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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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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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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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