A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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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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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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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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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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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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