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The Kite Runner (2003)
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.
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Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor.
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You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
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We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born...
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.
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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
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The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.
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It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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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.
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I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.
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Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.
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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is.. God help him.
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If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate —sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.
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It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.
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If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.
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I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great
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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.
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You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
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But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it?... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.
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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.
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Khaled Hosseini
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March 4, 1965
(age 59)
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