Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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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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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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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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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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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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