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.
KHALED HOSSEINIThere was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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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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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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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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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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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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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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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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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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