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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

Khaled Hosseini

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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Empty Night Place Reality Rise Summer Tears Throat
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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Change Different Life Myself Open Talk
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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Black Decision Fear Hate Himself Live Love Person Problem See White World
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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Change Fair Life Time Wrong
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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Meaning People Talk Thinking Worth
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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Culture End Home Identity Key Language Legal Room Yourself
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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Empty Night Place Reality Rise Summer Tears Throat
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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Confidence Hope Inspirational Knowledge Motivational Myself Win Wisdom
I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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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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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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Attention Flower Pathetic See View Water
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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One Liner Pass Time Wisdom
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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

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