One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
KHALED HOSSEINIYou 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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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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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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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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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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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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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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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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