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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

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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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There is a way to be good again.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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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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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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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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$Khaled Hosseini Quote - Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.$

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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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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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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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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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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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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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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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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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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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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