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.
KHALED HOSSEINIA man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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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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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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