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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Khaled Hosseini

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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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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 sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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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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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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