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.
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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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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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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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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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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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It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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