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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.

Khaled Hosseini

I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Happiness Love Myself Time
And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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Brave Country Ourselves Pretty Ruin Story Strength
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Easy Fragile Goodness Life Lost
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
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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Action Deep Heart Punishment Understand
Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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Fingers Man Oppression Woman
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
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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English Existence Learning Word
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Comfortable Hurt Lying Truth
A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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Destination Reach Story Train 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
True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Goodness Guilty Leadership Transformation True
You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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Bad Coward God Grace Help Lying Remember Save Wrong Yourself
It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Connection Emotional Tremendous
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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Goodness Kindness Myself Old Person Regret Thinking
I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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Bone Cruelty Dreams Hope Learning Mad Skin World

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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