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The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. (Khaled Hosseini)
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. View quote
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It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good. View quote
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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. View quote
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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. View quote
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Regret...when it comes to you, I have oceans of it. View quote
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And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing. View quote
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One time, when I was really 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. View quote
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some stories don't need telling. View quote
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Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. View quote
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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. (Khaled Hosseini)
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. View quote
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated... View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. View quote
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Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand... well, God put a lot of thought into making you. View quote
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You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it. View quote
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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. View quote
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But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her. View quote
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Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila. View quote
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She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed. (Khaled Hosseini)
That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. View quote
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He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. View quote
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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said. View quote
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A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it. View quote
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