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Nobody rated it less than 3 stars. It's a very nice tale. The discussion was heated out of biases of the Hosseini fans :)

“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.”

“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.”

“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”

“A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”

“The finger cut, to save the hand.”

“Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.”

“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”

― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed