Khaled Hosseini quotes

Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician, best known for his bestselling debut novel "The Kite Runner." His works explore themes of exile, family, and the complexities of life in Afghanistan. He has become one of the most influential contemporary writers bringing Afghan stories to a global audience. Here are 265 of his quotes:

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

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The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

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In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

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I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.

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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.

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I know you're still young, but I want you to understand and learn this now, he said. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very, very bright girl. Truly, you are. You can be anything you want, Laila I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila No chance. -Babi.

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If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

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

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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

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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.

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

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For you, a thousand times over.

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Marriage can wait, education cannot.

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Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.

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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

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