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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:

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency. (Khaled Hosseini)
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime... View quote
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J'aurais dû être plus gentille-I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that. View quote
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It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want. View quote
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. View quote
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable. View quote
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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place. View quote
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I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on. View quote
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I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. View quote
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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. View quote
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In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself. (Khaled Hosseini)
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. View quote
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I will follow you to the ends of the world. View quote
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I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. View quote
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she is theof my eyes and the sultan of my heart. View quote
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You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you. View quote
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. View quote
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Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. View quote
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If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside. View quote
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. View quote
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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. (Khaled Hosseini)
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. View quote
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later. View quote
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Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end...crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). View quote
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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. View quote
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Khaled Hosseini

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Photo: Counse, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Afghani Novelist
Born: March 4, 1965
Quotes count: 265
Wikipedia: Khaled Hosseini

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