A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up …

Khaled Hosseini
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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2010). The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set, p.102, A&C Black
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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart
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I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, … ▶

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2010). The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set, p.102, A&C Black

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