One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
KHALED HOSSEINIYet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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 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 tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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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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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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