One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
KHALED HOSSEINIIt may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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There is a way to be good again.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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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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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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