Khaled Hosseini Quotes - Page 9

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• If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.

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  Mother, Art, Father

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• Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

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  Sunflower, Attention, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.11, A&C Black

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• But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

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  Book, Reading, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.71, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

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  Children, People, Given

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.77, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.

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  Rip, Lying, Eye

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.67, Penguin

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• She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

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  Fire, Looks, Ends

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• Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

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  Eye, Garden, Grieving

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.365, A&C Black

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• Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

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  Long, Coward, Helping

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.206, Penguin

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• He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.

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  Hands, Mouths, Hassan

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.60, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Taken, Dark, Self

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• Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

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  Luxury, Perspective, Demon

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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.

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  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  "Khaled Hosseini: 'If I could go back now, I'd take The Kite Runner apart'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2013.

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• My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.

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  Country, Religious, Memories

  "For Afghanistan With Love". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• [Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

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  Book, Unique, Kites

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

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• You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

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  Police, Kabul, Poverty

  "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 25, 2009.

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• The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

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  Two, Mind, Kites

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually.

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  Black And White, Color, Stories

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• [Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

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  Growing Up, Memories, Flying

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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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.

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  Cancer, Pneumonia, Blood

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• Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

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  Thinking, Suffering, Groups

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• For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

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  Novelists, Culture, Kind

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May, 2009.

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• There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

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  Writing, Literature, Tradition

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

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• I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

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  Stories, Elements, Way

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• I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

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  Book, Reading, School

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• I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

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  Sorry, Grief, Loss

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing

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