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Khaled Hosseini Quotes | Quotes said by Khaled Hosseini

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #1

    ... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. Regret… When it comes to you, Mariam jo, I have oceans of it. I regret that I did not see you the day you came to Herat. I regret that I did not open the door and take you in. I regret that I did not make you a daughter to me, that I let you live in that place for all those years. And for what? Fear of losing face? Of staining my so-called good name? How little those things matter to me now after all the loss, all the terrible things I have seen in this cursed war. But now, of course, it is too late. Perhaps that is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Now all I can do is say that you were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and that I never deserved you. Now all I can do is ask for your forgiveness. So forgive me, Mariam jo. Forgive me, forgive me. Forgive me...

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #2

    ?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 Quote #3

    A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    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 Quote #6

    A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #7

    Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #8

    and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #9

    And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #10

    And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #11

    And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #12

    and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #13

    At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , he said . You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17)

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #14

    Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #15

    Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

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

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #18

    But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #19

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

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #20

    Durante un par de horas cada jueves, cuando Yalil la visitaba, entre sonrisas y regalos y palabras cariñosas, Mariam se sentía merecedora de toda la belleza y los obsequios que podía ofrecer la vida. Y por eso Mariam lo quería.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #21

    Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #22

    Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #23

    Give sustenance, Allah.
    Give sustenance to me.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #24

    Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #25

    Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #26

    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.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #27

    He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #28

    He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #29

    He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.

  • Khaled Hosseini Quote #30

    He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes.

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