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And the Mountains Echoed (2013)
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.
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I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
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They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there. Yes it was. Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
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At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
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James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?
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She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.
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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.
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I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.
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Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.
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The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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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.
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Khaled Hosseini
Born:
March 4, 1965
(age 59)
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