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.
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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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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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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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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