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181 " Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun. "
― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner
182 " Life is a train, get on board. "
183 " There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. "
184 " I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. "
― Khaled Hosseini , A Thousand Splendid Suns
185 " But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand. "
― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed
186 " The finger cut, to save the hand. "
187 " It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good. "
188 " the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion "
189 " And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. "
190 " She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed. "
191 " He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity. "
192 " I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become. "
193 " That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. "
194 " Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer. "
195 " Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. "
196 " Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. "
197 " She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. "
198 " I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart "
199 " I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise. "
200 " Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees. "