Top 380 Khaled Hosseini Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 3 of 8

101. “He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can’t lie now and say my eyes didn’t scan it for any rips.”

— Khaled Hosseini

102. “Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.”

— Khaled Hosseini

103. “For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.”

— Khaled Hosseini

104. “Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”

— Khaled Hosseini

105. “But the game involves only male names. Because, if it’s a girl, Laila has already named her.”

— Khaled Hosseini

106. “Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.”

— Khaled Hosseini

107. “I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.”

— Khaled Hosseini

108. “Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

— Khaled Hosseini

109. “I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.”

— Khaled Hosseini

110. “Zendagi migzara, we say, life goes on.”

— Khaled Hosseini

111. “Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”

— Khaled Hosseini

112. “There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.”

— Khaled Hosseini

113. “I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great.”

— Khaled Hosseini

114. “I’m a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.”

— Khaled Hosseini

115. “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. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.”

— Khaled Hosseini

116. “She would never leave her mark on Mammy’s heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy’s heart was like a pallid beach where Laila’s footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”

— Khaled Hosseini

117. “I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!”

— Khaled Hosseini

118. “Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that’s alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon’s eye, grieve not.”

— Khaled Hosseini

119. “I wished I could open my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body.”

— Khaled Hosseini

120. “This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.”

— Khaled Hosseini

121. “I think he loved us equally, but differently.”

— Khaled Hosseini

122. “It’s a dangerous business, making promises to kids.”

— Khaled Hosseini

123. “I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah.”

— Khaled Hosseini

124. “James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?”

— Khaled Hosseini

125. “Blood is a powerful thing.”

— Khaled Hosseini

126. “When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.”

— Khaled Hosseini

127. “I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.”

— Khaled Hosseini

128. “I don’t know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.”

— Khaled Hosseini

129. “Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”

— Khaled Hosseini

130. “Seperti dalam perang mana pun, kami harus mempersiapkan diri untuk bertempur.”

— Khaled Hosseini

131. “So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.”

— Khaled Hosseini

132. “I was like the patient who cannot explain to the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”

— Khaled Hosseini

133. “Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”

— Khaled Hosseini

134. “You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”

— Khaled Hosseini

135. “The truth was no. The lie was yes. I settled for something in between. “I don’t know.”

— Khaled Hosseini

136. “Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people’s lives. 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. The thought of it terrified me.”

— Khaled Hosseini

137. “Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn’t understand. She didn’t understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.”

— Khaled Hosseini

138. “Nana said, “Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

— Khaled Hosseini

139. “If there’s a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.”

— Khaled Hosseini

140. “I didn’t remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.”

— Khaled Hosseini

141. “You don’t order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them ‘sister’ the next.”

— Khaled Hosseini

142. “It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.”

— Khaled Hosseini

143. “There is only what you do and what you don’t do.”

— Khaled Hosseini

144. “And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you.”

— Khaled Hosseini

145. “Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.”

— Khaled Hosseini

146. “You’re not going to cry, are you? – I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.”

— Khaled Hosseini

147. “In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”

— Khaled Hosseini

148. “I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”

— Khaled Hosseini

149. “I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.”

— Khaled Hosseini

150. “Make morning into a key and throw it into the well, go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. let the morning sun forget to rise in the east, go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.”

— Khaled Hosseini