Khaled Hosseini Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.
Was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character
It was a long time ago , but people make mistakes when they think they can barry the past . It can simlpy flow to the surface .
I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. He
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.
Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.
A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.
Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.
Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.
Happiness like this is frightening ... they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
That was a long time ago, but 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.
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.
She was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.
She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.
She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.
I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.
It is the creators of the harami (bastards) who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born.
It was the way Nana uttered the word - not so much saying it as spitting it at her - that made Mariam feel the full sting of it.
I cringed a little at the position of power i'd been granted, and all because I had won at the genetic lottery that had determined my sex.
From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila
We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book.
To this day, I find it hard to gaze directly at people like Hassan, people who mean every word they say.
Must have been quite the culture shock, going there."
"Yes it was." Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
"Yes it was." Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last.
Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only.
As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn't.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ...
I was the lucky one because I was protected by my youth. Je pouvais oublier. I still had the luxury of forgetting. He did not.