Top 380 Khaled Hosseini Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Kehilangan sesuatu yang kita miliki selalu lebih menyakitkan daripada tidak memiliki sama sekali.”

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203. “And if he knew, then what would I see if I did look in his eyes? Blame? Indignation? Or, God forbid, what I feared most: guileless devotion? That, most of all, I couldn’t bear to see.”

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204. “In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.”

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205. “If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.”

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206. “Hassan couldn’t read a first-grade textbook but he’d read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.”

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207. “By the time we’re twenty, Hasina used to say, Giti and I, we’ll have pushed out four, five kids each. But you, Laila, you’ll make us two dummies proud. You’re going to be somebody. I know one day I’ll pick up a newspaper and find your picture on the front page.”

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208. “He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he’s wrong. War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”

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209. “Mariam wondered how so many women could suffer the same miserable luck, to have married, all of them, such dreadful men.”

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210. “Seorang anak laki-laki yang tak mampu membela dirinya sendiri akan tumbuh menjadi pria yang tak mampu menghadapi masalah apapun.”

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211. “Mereka bernasib naas, memiliki ayah yang lemah. Seorang pengecut yang lebih memilih melihat mereka semua mati daripada menyiksa nuraninya sendiri.”

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212. “Dostet darum.” I love you. “I love you back,” she said. I could hear the smile in her words. “And be careful.”

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213. “He knew I’d seen everything in that alley, that I’d stood there and done nothing. He knew that I’d betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.”

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214. “I see you’ve confused what you’re learning in school with actual education.”

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215. “After everything he’d built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.”

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216. “Di dunia ini, ada orang yang memang jahat, dan kadang-kadang mereka akan tetap jahat.”

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217. “I welcome you to my home as my son, as the husband of my daughter who is the noor of my eye. Your pain will be our pain, your joy our joy. I hope that you will come to see your Khala and Jamila and me as a second set of parents, and I pray for your and our lovely Soraya jan’s happiness. you both have our blessings.”

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218. “War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”

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219. “A sadness came over me. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn’t been good to him, that he’d become homeless and destitute.”

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220. “Tidak ada salahnya menjadi seorang pengecut selama kau tetap berhati-hati. Tapi bila seorang pengecut mulai melupakan siapa dirinya... Semoga Tuhan melindunginya.”

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221. “Sebenarnya aku berusaha menjadi pengecut karena pilihan lainnya, alasan sebenarnya aku melarikan diri, adalah karena Assef mengatakan kebenaran: Tak ada yang gratis di dunia ini.”

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222. “I finally had what I’d wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.”

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223. “Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.”

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224. “To this day, I find it hard to gaze directly at people like Hassan, people who mean every word they say.”

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225. “I promised myself that I would talk to her before the summer was over, but schools reopened, the leaves reddened, yellowed, and fell, the rains of winter swept in and wakened Baba’s joints, baby leaves sprouted once more, and I still hadn’t had the heart, the dil, to even look her in the eye.”

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226. “He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.”

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227. “This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings.”

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228. “Tapi waktu sungguh serakah, kadang-kadang ia mencuri semua detail tanpa menyisakan apapun.”

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229. “Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!”

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230. “If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate – sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.”

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231. “But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

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232. “Dan akhirnya, pertanyaan yang selalu kembali padaku adalah: Bagaimana mungkin aku, dari semua orang lain, menghakimi seseorang atas masa lalu mereka?”

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233. “So it would begin. The obligatory questions, the perfunctory answers. Both pretending. Unenthusiastic partners, the two of them, in this tired old dance.”

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234. “Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya’s womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I’d feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.”

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235. “I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive.”

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236. “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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237. “Por ti lo haria mil veces mas.”

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238. “As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.”

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239. “I was glad I didn’t have to return his gaze. Did he know I knew? And if he knew, then what would I see if I did look in his eyes? Blame? Indignation? Or, God forbid, what I feared most: guileless devotion?”

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240. “She had this laugh. I swear it’s why I married her, Laila, for that laugh! It bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.”

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241. “Untukmu keseribu kalinya – Hassan si pengejar layang-layang berbibir sumbing.”

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242. “I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.”

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243. “She has intelligent, flirtatious eyes, and a penetrating gaze under which one feels simultaneously appraised, tested, charmed, toyed with. They remain, I suspect, a redoubtable seduction tool.”

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244. “Menyakiti seseorang adalah salah, bahkan walau orang itu jahat. Karena mereka tidak tahu jalan yang lebih baik, dan karena orang-orang yang jahat pun bisa menjadi baik.”

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245. “There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.”

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246. “I laughed. Clutched him in a hug and planted a kiss on his cheek. “What was that for?” he said; startled, blushing. I gave him a friendly hug, smiled. “You’re a prince, Hassan. You’re a prince and I love you.”

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247. “Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn’t breathe God would grant her another day with Jalil.”

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248. “She considers for a minute before saying, “I should have been more kind. 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. I should have been more kind.”

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249. “Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.”

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250. “Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.”

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