"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime."
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"A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later."
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"When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out in the open under tents, sometimes completely exposed to the environment. And they were homeless, which meant they would lose children in the winter to the cold and in the summers in the extreme heat. It's extremely humiliating for them to be homeless, culturally it's very shameful."
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"They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind."
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"Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything"
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"For you, a thousand times over"
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"Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila."
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"Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting."
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"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."
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"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
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"It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out."
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"True redemption is...when guilt leads to good."
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"Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one."
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"A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated."
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"I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance."
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"Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world."
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"Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone."
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"Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions."
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"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
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"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel."
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