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 HOSSEINIAnd that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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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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But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
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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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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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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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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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