I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
KHALED HOSSEINIBut time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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There is a way to be good again.
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Hills 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.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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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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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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