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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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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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J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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The finger cut, to save the hand.
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In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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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.
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Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
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