But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEINIChildren aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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 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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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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