Top 380 Khaled Hosseini Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “For you, a thousand times over.”

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2. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

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

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4. “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”

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5. “There is a way to be good again...”

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6. “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

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7. “But then it passed, as all things do.”

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8. “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

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9. “But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.”

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10. “Don’t be afraid to tell the truth. It’s better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”

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15. “Marriage can wait, education cannot.”

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16. “In the end, the world always wins. That’s just the way of things.”

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17. “Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. – Amir.”

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18. “I will follow you to the ends of the world.”

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

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20. “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.”

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21. “Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.”

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22. “I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”

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23. “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”

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24. “Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”

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25. “All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.”

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28. “For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”

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29. “Life is a train, get on board.”

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30. “Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.”

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33. “Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”

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34. “Sad stories make good books.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.”

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37. “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”

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38. “Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

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39. “He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”

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40. “Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.”

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41. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”

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42. “Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?”

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43. “A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”

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44. “The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.”

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45. “When you kill a man, you steal a life. 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.”

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46. “I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”

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47. “I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn’t tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.”

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48. “Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

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49. “A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”

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50. “It’s wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don’t know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”

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