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You can not stop you from being who you are.

Khaled Hosseini

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.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Life Peace Quiet Silence Tranquility
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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Empty Night Place Reality Rise Summer Tears Throat
It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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Hurt Lose Place Wisdom
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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Bury Lying Reading Wrong Yourself
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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Ability Feeling Ocean Ourselves Path Person Present Thinking True Universe Walk World
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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Change Fair Life Time Wrong
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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Act Face Hard Person Punishment Simplicity Wait
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Beautiful Gift Stupidity
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Beautiful Herself Power Tea
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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.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Culture Government Leadership Nation Run
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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Culture End Home Identity Key Language Legal Room Yourself
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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Forgiveness Myself Night Pain Wonderful
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Charm Deep Thinking Time Wisdom Yourself
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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Boy Direction Enjoyment Friendship See Sun Treat
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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Change Different Life Myself Open Talk
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Comfortable Hurt Lying Truth

You can not stop you from being who you are.

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