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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. — Khaled Hosseini

Shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first. — Khaled Hosseini

But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home — Khaled Hosseini

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. — Khaled Hosseini

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. — Khaled Hosseini

I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen. — Khaled Hosseini

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great — Khaled Hosseini

Regret ... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it. — Khaled Hosseini

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think. A — Khaled Hosseini

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end ... crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). — Khaled Hosseini

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next. — Khaled Hosseini

Was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character — Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. — Khaled Hosseini

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork. — Khaled Hosseini

of wrongdoing and rightdoing, — Khaled Hosseini

I watched Baba's car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name. — Khaled Hosseini

But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her — Khaled Hosseini

Father used to say it's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good." "Not — Khaled Hosseini

Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you? — Khaled Hosseini

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. — Khaled Hosseini

field. I'll meet you there. — Khaled Hosseini

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. — Khaled Hosseini

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price? — Khaled Hosseini

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. — Khaled Hosseini

A finger had to be cut, to save the hand. — Khaled Hosseini

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [ ... ] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in. — Khaled Hosseini

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. — Khaled Hosseini

The finger cut, to save the hand. — Khaled Hosseini

Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing [ ... ] and you will find all manner of dishonor. — Khaled Hosseini

-a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness. — Khaled Hosseini

The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies. — Khaled Hosseini

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. — Khaled Hosseini

People, she believed now, shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. — Khaled Hosseini

Father said all good things in life were fragile and easily lost - he — Khaled Hosseini

People ... shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair. — Khaled Hosseini

After all, life is not a Hindi movie. — Khaled Hosseini

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight. — Khaled Hosseini

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner working of another person's heart. — Khaled Hosseini

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency. — Khaled Hosseini

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips. — Khaled Hosseini

We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore. — Khaled Hosseini

Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is. — Khaled Hosseini

And the Mountains Echoed BY KHALED HOSSEINI — Khaled Hosseini

Masooma." "Could you?" "I could try," Parwana says. "Good. Then marry Saboor. Look after his — Khaled Hosseini

From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S. — Khaled Hosseini

To this day, I find it hard to gaze directly at people like Hassan, people who mean every word they say. — Khaled Hosseini

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said. — Khaled Hosseini

No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love. — Khaled Hosseini

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. — Khaled Hosseini

I wished I could open my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body. — Khaled Hosseini

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. — Khaled Hosseini

I will use a flower petal for paper,
And write you the sweetest letter,
You are the sultan of my heart,
Sultan of my heart. — Khaled Hosseini

And one more thing ... You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab. — Khaled Hosseini

My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last. — Khaled Hosseini

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything — Khaled Hosseini

I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty. — Khaled Hosseini

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. — Khaled Hosseini

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. — Khaled Hosseini

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another. — Khaled Hosseini

She was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home.. — Khaled Hosseini

Sad stories make good books — Khaled Hosseini

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin! — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her. — Khaled Hosseini

But even when he wasn't around, he was. — Khaled Hosseini

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. — Khaled Hosseini

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. — Khaled Hosseini

Clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect. — Khaled Hosseini

A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life. — Khaled Hosseini

It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know? — Khaled Hosseini

Ut time can be a greedy thing- sometimes it steals all the details for itself — Khaled Hosseini

He was a visionary or a fool I have found the line perilously thin myself — Khaled Hosseini

Today Baba got a blister when he put his palm down on the hood of our rental car! Mother had to put toothpaste on it. — Khaled Hosseini

I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing! — Khaled Hosseini

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. — Khaled Hosseini

It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. — Khaled Hosseini

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey. — Khaled Hosseini

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. — Khaled Hosseini

I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining... — Khaled Hosseini

The thing about people who mean everything they say is that they think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. — Khaled Hosseini

Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away. — Khaled Hosseini

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. — Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. — Khaled Hosseini

Awake. And alone with demons of my own. — Khaled Hosseini

How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being — Khaled Hosseini

He lived in a mansion, but in a shrunken world. — Khaled Hosseini

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. — Khaled Hosseini

But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage. — Khaled Hosseini

Takes a donkey to know a donkey. — Khaled Hosseini

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini