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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: anticipation
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “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.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: man, men, woman, women
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: children
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
    Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: education, marriage
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: inspirational, reason, sorrow, trial
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “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, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: afghanistan, drama, the-kite-runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: inspirational, life, metaphor
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    Martin Amis
    “Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
    ― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
    tags: love
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    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
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    Jean de La Bruyère
    “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
    ― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères
    tags: time
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    91930 likes



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