Khaled Hosseini Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• 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.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Silence, Buttons, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.164, A&C Black

• A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Lying, Silence, Wake Up

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.73, Penguin

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Song, Husband, Silence

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.84, A&C Black

• It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. 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. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Taken, Dark, Self

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