"She lived in fear of his shifting moods,……" — Khaled Hosseini
"She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not."
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270 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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