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I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

Khaled Hosseini's Popular Quotes

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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A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver

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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

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Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

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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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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 aske…

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She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

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He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

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