"I didn't remember what month that was, or……" — Khaled Hosseini
"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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Khaled Hosseini
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270 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini
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Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And
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The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that…
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long…
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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
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