It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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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There is a way to be good again.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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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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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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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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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.
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The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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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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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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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