A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
KHALED HOSSEINII’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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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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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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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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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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