One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
KHALED HOSSEINI
It 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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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’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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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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But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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