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.
KHALED HOSSEINIShe was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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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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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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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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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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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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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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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