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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
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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.
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Regret ... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think. A
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Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end ... crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).
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You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
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Was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character
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So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
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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.
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of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
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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
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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
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Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you?
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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
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field. I'll meet you there.
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All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.
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Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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A finger had to be cut, to save the hand.
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I don't know whom or what he was defying. [ ... ] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
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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.
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Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing [ ... ] and you will find all manner of dishonor.
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-a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness.
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The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.
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Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one.
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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
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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.
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After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
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There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
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Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
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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.
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One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner working of another person's heart.
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If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.
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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.
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Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.
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And the Mountains Echoed BY KHALED HOSSEINI
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Masooma." "Could you?" "I could try," Parwana says. "Good. Then marry Saboor. Look after his
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From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila
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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.
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To this day, I find it hard to gaze directly at people like Hassan, people who mean every word they say.
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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
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No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.
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The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.
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I wished I could open my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body.
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He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.
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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
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I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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..
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Sad stories make good books
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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.
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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.
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Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!
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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.
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Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
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But even when he wasn't around, he was.
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Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.
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It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
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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.
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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.
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It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.
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It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...
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The thing about people who mean everything they say is that they think everyone else does too.
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That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
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Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.
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Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
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Awake. And alone with demons of my own.
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How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being
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He lived in a mansion, but in a shrunken world.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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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.
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