Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
KHALED HOSSEINII 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.
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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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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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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