And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed Posts
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.