She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening … - Khaled Hosseini

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She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

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Khaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965) is a physician and author of the best selling novel, The Kite Runner.

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