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Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Total quotes: 70
“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 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Men, Women, Love, Moms, romance, Heartbreak
“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
“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
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