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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.
— Khaled Hosseini
Shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first.
— Khaled Hosseini
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
— Khaled Hosseini
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
— Khaled Hosseini
It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.
— Khaled Hosseini
I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.
— Khaled Hosseini
Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end ... crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).
— Khaled Hosseini
You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
— Khaled Hosseini
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
— Khaled Hosseini
With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets.
— Khaled Hosseini
It's a dangerous business, making promises to kids.
— Khaled Hosseini
If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.
— Khaled Hosseini
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
— Khaled Hosseini
I watched Baba's car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.
— Khaled Hosseini
But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her
— Khaled Hosseini
Father used to say it's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good." "Not
— Khaled Hosseini
There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.
— Khaled Hosseini
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
— Khaled Hosseini
All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.
— Khaled Hosseini
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
— Khaled Hosseini
-a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness.
— Khaled Hosseini
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
— Khaled Hosseini
A finger had to be cut, to save the hand.
— Khaled Hosseini
Must have been quite the culture shock, going there." "Yes it was." Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back. — Khaled Hosseini
We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book.
— Khaled Hosseini
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
— Khaled Hosseini
One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner working of another person's heart.
— Khaled Hosseini
The finger cut, to save the hand.
— Khaled Hosseini
Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing [ ... ] and you will find all manner of dishonor.
— Khaled Hosseini
Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one.
— Khaled Hosseini
Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that's all she can do. That and hope.
— Khaled Hosseini
Let's fly," he said.
— Khaled Hosseini
A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.
— Khaled Hosseini
That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
— Khaled Hosseini
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
— Khaled Hosseini
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
— Khaled Hosseini
A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought in making you.
— Khaled Hosseini
Alas, Abdullah and Pari, Baba Ayub's days of happiness came to an end.
— Khaled Hosseini
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
— Khaled Hosseini
There's no monster...just a beautiful day.
— Khaled Hosseini
He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
— Khaled Hosseini
In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
— Khaled Hosseini
He's a doctor," Timur says. "Ah? It must be shocking for you, then. This hospital.
— Khaled Hosseini
Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
— Khaled Hosseini
I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty
— Khaled Hosseini
Thought, She's your wife. My mother, we buried. But he knew to stifle those words before they came
— Khaled Hosseini
Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
— Khaled Hosseini
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
— Khaled Hosseini
Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.
— Khaled Hosseini
It's like describing music. He cannot bring it to life.
— Khaled Hosseini
She had this laugh. I swear it's why I married her, Laila, for that laugh! It bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.
— Khaled Hosseini
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.
— Khaled Hosseini
I will use a flower petal for paper,And write you the sweetest letter,
You are the sultan of my heart,
Sultan of my heart. — Khaled Hosseini
And one more thing ... You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
— Khaled Hosseini
My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last.
— Khaled Hosseini
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
— Khaled Hosseini
I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.
— Khaled Hosseini
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
— Khaled Hosseini
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
— Khaled Hosseini
Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.
— Khaled Hosseini
She was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home..
— Khaled Hosseini
Sad stories make good books
— Khaled Hosseini
Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
— Khaled Hosseini
Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only.
— Khaled Hosseini
Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!
— Khaled Hosseini
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
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
— Khaled Hosseini
But even when he wasn't around, he was.
— Khaled Hosseini
Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.
— Khaled Hosseini
It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
— Khaled Hosseini
Today Baba got a blister when he put his palm down on the hood of our rental car! Mother had to put toothpaste on it.
— Khaled Hosseini
I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
— Khaled Hosseini
The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
— Khaled Hosseini
It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.
— Khaled Hosseini
It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
— Khaled Hosseini
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
— Khaled Hosseini
I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...
— Khaled Hosseini
The thing about people who mean everything they say is that they think everyone else does too.
— Khaled Hosseini
That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
— Khaled Hosseini
Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.
— Khaled Hosseini
Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
— Khaled Hosseini
Awake. And alone with demons of my own.
— Khaled Hosseini
How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being
— Khaled Hosseini
He lived in a mansion, but in a shrunken world.
— Khaled Hosseini
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
— Khaled Hosseini
But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.
— Khaled Hosseini
Takes a donkey to know a donkey.
— Khaled Hosseini
