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

Khaled Hosseini

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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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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

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