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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.- Rahim Khan
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Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.
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It was Homaira and me against the world... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could—a look, a whisper, a moan—to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.
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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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It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir
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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.
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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
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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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I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.
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I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.
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People…shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
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How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
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It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
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People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
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Is this about you and Hassan? I know there's something going on between you two, but whatever it is, you have to deal with it, not me. I'm staying out of it.
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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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You're not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
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Sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.
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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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Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.
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Khaled Hosseini
Born:
March 4, 1965
(age 59)
Bio:
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage".
Known for:
The Kite Runner (2003)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
And the Mountains Echoed (2013)
The Kite Runner Graphic Novel (2011)
The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel (2011)
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