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.
KHALED HOSSEINIPerhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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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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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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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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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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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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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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