Top 380 Khaled Hosseini Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The finger cut, to save the hand.”

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

53. “After all, life is not a Hindi movie.”

— Khaled Hosseini

54. “I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”

— Khaled Hosseini

55. “People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”

— Khaled Hosseini

56. “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

57. “Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.”

— Khaled Hosseini

58. “I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both ‘The Kite Runner’ and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ that’s obvious.”

— Khaled Hosseini

59. “And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”

— Khaled Hosseini

60. “The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”

— Khaled Hosseini

61. “When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

— Khaled Hosseini

62. “A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.”

— Khaled Hosseini

63. “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

64. “I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.”

— Khaled Hosseini

65. “A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver.”

— Khaled Hosseini

66. “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

67. “The Chinese say it’s better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.”

— Khaled Hosseini

68. “Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.”

— Khaled Hosseini

69. “Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.”

— Khaled Hosseini

70. “A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

— Khaled Hosseini

71. “Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.”

— Khaled Hosseini

72. “It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”

— Khaled Hosseini

73. “They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.”

— Khaled Hosseini

74. “What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”

— Khaled Hosseini

75. “I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.”

— Khaled Hosseini

76. “Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.”

— Khaled Hosseini

77. “I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.”

— Khaled Hosseini

78. “The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.”

— Khaled Hosseini

79. “Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.”

— Khaled Hosseini

80. “When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I’ve been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.”

— Khaled Hosseini

81. “I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.”

— Khaled Hosseini

82. “Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.”

— Khaled Hosseini

83. “Tapi lebih baik disakiti oleh kenyataan daripada dinyamankan oleh kebohongan.”

— Khaled Hosseini

84. “Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.”

— Khaled Hosseini

85. “You can not stop you from being who you are.”

— Khaled Hosseini

86. “I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.”

— Khaled Hosseini

87. “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

88. “That’s how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”

— Khaled Hosseini

89. “It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn’t you know?”

— Khaled Hosseini

90. “I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”

— Khaled Hosseini

91. “She thought of Aziza’s stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.”

— Khaled Hosseini

92. “Time is the most unforgiving of fires.”

— Khaled Hosseini

93. “For you, a thousand times over.” Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything alright. It didn’t make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I’ll take it. With open arms.”

— Khaled Hosseini

94. “I guess some stories do not need telling.”

— Khaled Hosseini

95. “The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.”

— Khaled Hosseini

96. “I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn’t care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran.”

— Khaled Hosseini

97. “In Afghanistan, you don’t understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.”

— Khaled Hosseini

98. “She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.”

— Khaled Hosseini

99. “I don’t outline at all; I don’t find it useful, and I don’t like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.”

— Khaled Hosseini

100. “For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.”

— Khaled Hosseini