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Awindlike

“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Awindlike

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“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. - Amir”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“some stories don't need telling”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“hidup ini adalah perjalanan panjang dan tidak selalu mulus. pada hari ke berapa dan pada jam ke berapa, kita tidak pernah tahu, rasa sakit apa yang harus kita lalui.

kita tidak tahu kapan hidup akan membanting kita dalam sekali, membuat terduduk, untuk kemudian memaksa kita mengambil keputusan.

satu-dua keputusan itu membuat kita bangga, sedangkan sisanya lebih banyak menghasilkan penyesalan.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

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“Kesetiaan terbaik adalah pada prinsip-prinsip hidup, bukan pada yang lain. Hanya kesetiaan pada prinsiplah yang akan memanggil kesetiaan-kesetiaan terbaik lainnya.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

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“Sepanjang kita mau melihatnya, maka kita selalu bisa menyaksikan masih ada hal indah di hari paling buruk sekalipun.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

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“Hidup ini tidak pernah tentang mengalahkan siapa pun. Hidup ini hanya tentang kedamaian di hatimu. Saat kau mampu berdamai, maka saat itulah kau telah memenangkan seluruh pertempuran.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

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“Penyerangan apa pun yang tidak berhasil menghabisi kita, justru akan membuat kita semakin kuat. Penyerbuan apa pun yang tidak berhasil membenamkan kita, justru akan membuat kita berdiri semakin tegak.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

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“Semua orang punya masa lalu, dan itu bukan urusan siapa pun. Urus saja masa lalu masing-masing.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang