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Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“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
“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
“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
“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
“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Stealing, Death, Murder
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: God Quotes, Faith, Belief
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Fear, Living, Life, Afraid
“The past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Wisdom, Love, Relationships
“And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, Guilt, Loyalty, Love
“A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: destination, Onboard
“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: purpose, Life, Mind
“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Roots, Past, Regret, Unreal
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback
Tagged: Honesty, Thinking, Everyone
“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.’”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Beautiful, Strength And Beauty, unfair
“Tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Love, romance, liking someone, Flirting Lines, Flirting
“How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Pain, quiet endurance, enduring, Problems, trouble, Experience, Life
“Sad stories make good books.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, Sadness, Art
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Fear, Guide, Truth
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Literary Quotes, Literature, Literture Quotes
“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Sleep, Fear, Terror
“You can not stop you from being who you are.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Be You, Confidence, Self love
“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Reading Quotes, Writing, Literature Quotes
“There is a way to be good again.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, good deeds
“Life is a train, get on board.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Life, Keep Moving
“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Love, Children, fair
“True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Redemption, Guilt, Good
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback
Tagged: Truth, Lies, Honest And Truthful, Comfort
“'Do you have a camera?' Thalia said.
'No.'

'Have you ever taken a picture?'
'No.'

'And you want to be a photographer?'

'You find that strange?'

'A little.'

'So if I said I wanted to be a policeman, you'd think that was strange too? Because I've never slapped handcuffs on anyone?'”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Dreams, Passion, Photography, Life
“There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life,’ Baba said. ‘You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Theft, Fairness, Stealing
“Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you’re breathing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. But you have to breathe to scream. Panic.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, just breathe, Panic, Feelings, feels, Life
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