Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINI
It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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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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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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There is a way to be good again.
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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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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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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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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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