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.
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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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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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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 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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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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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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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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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