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.
KHALED HOSSEINIA boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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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 learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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