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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Khaled Hosseini

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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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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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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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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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 think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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