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Khaled Hosseini quotes - page 7
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
Khaled Hosseini
She would grab whatever she could -a look, a whisper, a moan - to salvage from perishing, to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.
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Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” "Yes it was.” Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
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you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.
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Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
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You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
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Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
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about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.
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It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
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these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
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At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
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Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
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People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
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What good is it? All this, what good is it? -Mariam.
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I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.
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Hasina: That's because you have a beard, my dear.
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Mariam is never very far, she is here, in these walls they've repainted, in the trees they've planted, in the blankets that keep the children warm, in these pillows and books and pencils. She is in the children's laughter. She is in the verses Aziza recites and in the prayers she mutters when she bows westward. But, mostly, Miriam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.
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Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.
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Giti: Nobody ever came for my hand.
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Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before.
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