Khaled Hosseini Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Marriage can wait, education cannot.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Inspirational, Marriage, School

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2015

• Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Simple, Waiting, Hardship

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2014

• ‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. 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.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, War, Smart

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.242, A&C Black

• I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Inspiring, Odds

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.104, A&C Black

• The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cities, People, Waiting

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.313, A&C Black

• Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Heart, Thinking, Years

• All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Waiting, Choices

  "Author Khaled Hosseini on The Kite Runner: The Rt Interview". Interview with Rachel Sandor, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

• I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

  Khaled Hosseini

  Real, Home, Self

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.292, A&C Black

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