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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. (Khaled Hosseini)
Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that's all she can do. That and hope. View quote
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and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last. View quote
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When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. View quote
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You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself. View quote
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose. View quote
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Life is a train, get on board. View quote
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Sad stories make good books. View quote
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The finger cut, to save the hand. (Khaled Hosseini)
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. View quote
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. View quote
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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. View quote
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. View quote
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I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. View quote
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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. View quote
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Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price? View quote
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Blood is a powerful thing. View quote
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken. View quote
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I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty. (Khaled Hosseini)
I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. View quote
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It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names. View quote
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i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. View quote
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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. View quote
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