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.
KHALED HOSSEINIBoys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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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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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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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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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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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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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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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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