Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINIAnd suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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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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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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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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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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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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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’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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But then it passed, as all things do.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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