Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINIA man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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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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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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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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