Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINII 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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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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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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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 tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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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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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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