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21 " Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist. "
― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed
22 " Mamà believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, the sooner you had to tell it. "
23 " Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand... "
24 " Who rebels with mathematics? "
25 " these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them. "
26 " The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. "
27 " They say, find a purpose in 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. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift "
28 " They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him. "
29 " I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. "
30 " 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. "
31 " 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. "
32 " I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. "
33 " Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. "
34 " 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. "
35 " 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. "
36 " All good things in life are fragile and easily lost "
37 " A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later. "
38 " You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does. "
39 " When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. "
40 " The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. "