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For you, a thousand times over
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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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life
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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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honesty
gullibility
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Khaled Hosseini |
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There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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Marriage can wait, education cannot.
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marriage
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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...
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Khaled Hosseini |
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There is a way to be good again...
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inspirational
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Khaled Hosseini |
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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir
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the-kite-runner
drama
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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metaphor
life
inspirational
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Khaled Hosseini |
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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sorrow
reason
inspirational
trial
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Khaled Hosseini |
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It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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60d558a
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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I will follow you to the ends of the world.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
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violence
men
women
man-s-heart
sad
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Khaled Hosseini |
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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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. - Amir
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silence
tranquility
quiet
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That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man si..
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poverty
wealth
sorrow
greed
cring
fables
tears
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Khaled Hosseini |
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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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Khaled Hosseini |
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I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A..
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Khaled Hosseini |
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she is the of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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lies
truth
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Khaled Hosseini |
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you."
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Khaled Hosseini |
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One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.
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sohrab
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Khaled Hosseini |
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0319393
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba"
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war
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Khaled Hosseini |
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there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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Khaled Hosseini |
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some stories don't need telling
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Khaled Hosseini |
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
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Khaled Hosseini |