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.
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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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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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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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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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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