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Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.

Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. ‘It wasn’t meant to be’, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.
– Khaled Hosseini

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  2. 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 in making you. – Khaled Hosseini
  3. Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. – Khaled Hosseini
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  5. Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse. – Khaled Hosseini
  6. Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. – Khaled Hosseini
  7. 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. – Khaled Hosseini
  8. In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them. – Khaled Hosseini
  9. I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing! – Khaled Hosseini
  10. you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you. – Khaled Hosseini
  11. it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. – Khaled Hosseini
  12. That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does. – Khaled Hosseini
  13. Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors. – Khaled Hosseini
  14. Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres. – Khaled Hosseini
  15. I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child. – Khaled Hosseini
  16. A society has no chance of success if it’s women are uneducated. – Khaled Hosseini
  17. You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel. – Khaled Hosseini
  18. Come. There is a way to be good again… – Khaled Hosseini
  19. i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. – Khaled Hosseini
  20. James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? – Khaled Hosseini
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  22. Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above. – Khaled Hosseini
  23. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. – Khaled Hosseini
  24. If there was a God, he’d guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I’d cut loose my pain, my longing. – Khaled Hosseini
  25. Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency. – Khaled Hosseini
  26. Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. – Khaled Hosseini
  27. What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits. – Khaled Hosseini
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  30. … there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. – Khaled Hosseini
  31. Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin! – Khaled Hosseini
  32. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again. – Khaled Hosseini
  33. Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one.  – Khaled Hosseini
  34. To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things. – Khaled Hosseini
  35. Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head. – Khaled Hosseini
  36. Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food. – Khaled Hosseini
  37. Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another. – Khaled Hosseini
  38. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. – Dr Seuss
  39. Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn’t get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that’s okay. – Keith Ablow
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