Khaled Hosseini Quotes

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• Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love You, Suffering, Poor

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.24, A&C Black

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• Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

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  Ocean, Feelings, Way

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• One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

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  Wall, Moon, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.347, A&C Black

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• It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

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  Life, May, Sometimes

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.67, A&C Black

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• But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

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  Thinking, Charm

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.382, A&C Black

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• They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

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  Mind, Purpose, Sometimes

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.127, A&C Black

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• No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Hurt, Growing Up

  Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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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.

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  Regret, Thinking, Should Have

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• She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

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  Life, Drs, Said

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.188, Penguin

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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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  Simple, Waiting, Hardship

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2014

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• For you, a thousand times over

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Circularity, Slingshots

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.110, A&C Black

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• A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

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  Men, Suffering, Doe

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.222, Penguin

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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.

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  Thinking, Funny Things, People

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.340, A&C Black

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

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  Honesty, Mean, Thinking

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.52, Penguin

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• You can not stop you from being who you are.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Can Not, Who You Are

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• People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

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  Eye, Window To The Soul, People

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.7, A&C Black

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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.

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  Gratitude, Eye, Liquid

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.402, A&C Black

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• The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

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  Weed, Spring, Flower

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.188, Penguin

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• There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Lying, Sin

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• 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.

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  Mouths, Might, Said

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.37, A&C Black

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Hurt

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.31, A&C Black

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• 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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  Say Anything

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.98, Penguin

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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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  Pain, Night, Gathering

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.261, Penguin

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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.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Teach, Wells

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

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  People, Choices, Way

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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