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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.

Khaled Hosseini

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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 a way to be good again.
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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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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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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 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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Some stories don’t need telling.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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’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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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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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