And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
KHALED HOSSEINIHe 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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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There is a way to be good again.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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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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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.
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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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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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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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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated 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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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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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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Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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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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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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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