The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
KHALED HOSSEINIWhether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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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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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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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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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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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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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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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