I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
KHALED HOSSEINIIn many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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’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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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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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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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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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You 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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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