A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
KHALED HOSSEINIHills 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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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