QUOTES by Khaled Hossein
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And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.
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Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.
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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.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba
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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
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You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.
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I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
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Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir
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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.
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It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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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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There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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