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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

Khaled Hosseini

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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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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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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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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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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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

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