There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
KHALED HOSSEINIOne 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’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
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There is a way to be good again.
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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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