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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.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Khaled Hosseini
Life, May, Sometimes
Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.67, A&C Black

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.

Khaled Hosseini
Life, Drs, Said
Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.188, Penguin

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

Khaled Hosseini
Life, Lying, Sin

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini
Inspirational, Life, Hurt
Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.31, A&C Black

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

Khaled Hosseini
Life, Inspiring, Odds
Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.104, A&C Black

Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

Khaled Hosseini
Life, Fall, Clouds
Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.227, A&C Black

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

Khaled Hosseini
Life, Dream, Mistake
Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

Khaled Hosseini
Life, Country, Children

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