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Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Total quotes: 69
“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, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Searching, Soul Searching, Journey, Life, Direction In Life, lost, lost soul, self exploration, Change, Direction, wandering
“People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.”
— Khaled Hosseini, Interview | Khaled Hosseini
Tagged: Connection, Meaning
“She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Motivational, powerful woman, Empowering, Influential
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Finding The Right Words, Could Have Changed Everything, Quote of the Moment, Lost Opportunities, Pivotal Moments, Words As Destiny Drivers
“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, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Teach, Life Experience, See And Feel
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Change, Life, unfair
“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Unsaid Feelings, Silence, Not knowing what to say
“You say you have no courage, but I see it in you.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Courage, Inspirational, Empowering, Encouragement
“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Love, Dreams, World, Life, romance
“How afraid I am to be free despite my frequent desire for it.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Freedom, Desire, Fear, Irony
“You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Regret, Good Person
“For you, a thousand times over.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Love, Loyalty, Friends, Friendship
“Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Education, Women Rights, Knowledge Is Power
“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: World, Society, external world, Dreams
“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 bear to lose.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: World, Fate, Destiny, Life, Life Is Hard
“This fragile, trembling glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Regret, past things, Past, what ifs, you can only move forward, move forward no matter what
“Sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback
Tagged: Hope, Change, Life
“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Losing, Hurt Most, Gaining
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Waiting, wishing, Hoping, Patience
“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, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Past, Regret, Mistakes, Running
“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Unhappiness, Love, Recourse
“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: morals, Honesty, Truth
“And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Knowledge, Hope, Wisdom
“People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Reveal, Truth, Eyes
“Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Heartless, punishment
“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: LGBTQ+, Parenting, Children, Identity
“‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: College, Education, Marriage
“And I'll tell you this, Amir Jan: In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things. ”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, Destiny, Fate
“If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Dreams, Goals, Chasing
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: honestly, Lies, Truth
“I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, Happiness, Fear
“There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: loyal, Love, bond
“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, Extremes
“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, People, Bad People
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Truth, Waiting, Odds
“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Courage, Fear, Loss
“Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Obstacles, Heroism
“My whole life I had been 'Baba's son.' Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, Finding Yourself
“That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Regret, Good Person
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Literary Quotes, Lit quotes, Best Books
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