Top 380 Khaled Hosseini Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.”

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152. “It was Homaira and me against the world. And I’ll tell you this, Amir jan: In the end, the world always wins. That’s just the way of things.”

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153. “If there was a God, he’d guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I’d cut loose my pain, my longing.”

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154. “You’ve always been a tourist here. You just didn’t know it.”

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155. “I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.”

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156. “Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it’s either before or after they’ve blown something up.”

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157. “Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.”

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158. “All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”

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159. “All my life, I’d been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”

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160. “Hanya ada satu macam dosa, hanya satu. Yaitu mencuri. Dosa-dosa yang lain adalah variasi dari dosa itu.”

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161. “Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”

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162. “Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time.”

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163. “The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.”

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164. “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.”

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165. “I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.”

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166. “Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything – that is how, it is between people who are each other’s first memories.”

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167. “They only make you so happy when they are about to take something from you.”

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

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169. “Luka bisa disembuhkan. Reputasi tidak bisa dipulihkan.”

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170. “Can I ask what you’re reading?“... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. “Have you read it?” She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. “It’s a sad story.” “Sad stories make good books,” She said. “They do.”

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171. “Writing for me is largely about rewriting.”

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172. “You say their stories, it is gift they give you.”

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173. “It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

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174. “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. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.”

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175. “Agha, did you hear what Mullah Nasruddin did when his daughter came home and complained that her husband had beaten her?” I could feel him smiling in the dark and a smile of my own formed on my face. There wasn’t an Afghan in the world who didn’t know at least a few jokes about the bumbling mullah. “What?” “He beat her too, then sent her back to tell the husband that Mullah was no fool: If the bastard was going to beat his daughter, then Mullah would beat his wife in return.”

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176. “Mungkin ini tidak adil, tapi sesuatu yang terjadi dalam beberapa hari, kadang-kadang bahkan dalam sehari, bisa mengubah keseluruhan jalan hidup seseorang.”

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177. “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. You steal his wife’s right of a husband, you rob his children of a father. When you lie you steal someone’s right to truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no more wretched act than stealing. A man who takes what is not his to take, be it life or a loaf of naan, I spit on such a man. And if I ever cross paths with him, God help him.”

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178. “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.”

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179. “Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq’s father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq’s absence or presence.”

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180. “Their sons go out to nightclubs looking for meat and get their girlfriends pregnant, they have kids out of wedlock and no one says a goddamn thing. Oh, they’re just men having fun! I make one mistake and suddenly everyone is talking nang and namoos, and I have to have my face rubbed in it for the rest of my life.”

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181. “The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born.”

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182. “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.”

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183. “After all, didn’t all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons?”

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184. “How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”

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185. “With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba 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.”

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186. “Anak-anak bukanlah buku mewarnai. Kau tidak bisa begitu saja mengisi mereka dengan warna-warna kesukaanmu.”

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187. “Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. ‘It wasn’t meant to be’, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.”

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188. “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.”

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189. “There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. – Amir.”

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190. “Hassan and I were stunned. Dazed. John Wayne didn’t really speak Farsi.”

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191. “For an hour or two every Thursday, when Jalil came to see her, all smiles and gifts and endearments, Mariam felt deserving of all the beauty and bounty that life had to give. And, for this, Mariam loved Jalil.”

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192. “Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.”

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193. “Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”

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194. “Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.”

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195. “Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.”

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196. “That’s the real Afghanistan, Agha sahib. That’s the Afghanistan I know. You? You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it.”

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197. “Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.”

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198. “Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can’t breathe then, like someone’s stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.”

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199. “Kehilangan sesuatu yang kita miliki selalu lebih menyakitkan daripada tidak memiliki sama sekali.”

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200. “Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.”

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