It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think t…

Khaled Hosseini
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It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2013). And the Mountains Echoed, p.340, A&C Black
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). A Thousand Splendid Suns, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knif … ▶
about clichés. Avoid them like the plague. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2010). The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set, p.91, A&C Black
You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2004). The Kite Runner, p.176, Penguin
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2013). And the Mountains Echoed, p.340, A&C Black

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