Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
KHALED HOSSEINI
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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There is a way to be good again.
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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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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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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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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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