One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
KHALED HOSSEINII have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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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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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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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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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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