Top 380 Khaled Hosseini Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.”

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252. “To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.”

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253. “No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.”

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254. “He lived in a mansion, but in a shrunken world”.”

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255. “Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.”

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256. “Because you, you are precious cargo, Marwan, the most precious there ever was. I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah.”

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257. “Takes a donkey to know a donkey.”

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258. “Ke mana pun aku berpaling, aku melihat tanda-tanda kesetiaannya, kesetiaan tanpa syarat keparatnya.”

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259. “It was the way Nana uttered the word – not so much saying it as spitting it at her – that made Mariam feel the full sting of it.”

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260. “There are only three real men in this world, Amir,” he’d say. He’d count them off on his fingers: America the brash saviour, Britain and Israel. “The rest of them-” he used to wave his hand and make a phht sound “-they’re like gossiping old women.”

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261. “But, miraculously, something of her former life remained, her last link to the person she had been before she had become so utterly alone. A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands.”

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262. “What I have in ample supply here is children who’ve lost their childhood. But the tragedy is that these are the lucky ones.”

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263. “At times, he didn’t understand the meaning of the Koran’s words. But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the Arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue. He said they comforted him, eased his heart. “They’ll comfort you to. Mariam jo,” he said. “You can summon then in your time of your need, and they won’t fail you. God’s words will never betray you, my girl.”

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264. “But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,′ she said, ’then Hakim is your man.”

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265. “She would grab whatever she could -a look, a whisper, a moan – to salvage from perishing, to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires, and she couldn’t, in the end, save it all .”

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266. “Darah memiliki kekuatan, jangan pernah lupakan itu.”

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267. “I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.”

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268. “Seruas jari harus dipotong untuk menyelamatkan tangan.”

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269. “I want to scream again, and I remember that last time I felt this way, riding with Baba in the tank of the fuel truck, buried in the dark with other refugees. I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my leg blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away. There will be no other reality tonight.”

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270. “I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal’s eyes. Absurdly, I imagine the animal understands. I imagined the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose.”

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271. “Tidak ada kata yang terucap, tidak ada yang perlu kami katakan, inilah harta yang dimiliki oleh mereka yang menyimpan kenangan yang sama, yang saling menjadi kenangan pertama, yang menyusu dari payudara yang sama.”

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272. “It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything all right. It didn’t make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.”

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273. “Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.”

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274. “I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.”

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275. “I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.”

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276. “Dan jika kau miskin, penderitaan menjadi mata uangmu.”

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277. “Tuhan telah menganugerahkan bakat istimewa kepadamu. Tugasmu saat ini adalah mengasah bakatmu karena orang yang menyia-nyiakan bakat pemberian Tuhan sama saja dengan seekor keledai.”

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278. “I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great. That’s very good. We’re a melancholic people, we Afghans, aren’t we? Often, we wallow too much in ghamkhori and self-pity. We give in to loss, to suffering, accept it as a fact of life, even see it as necessary. Zendagi migzara, we say, life goes on.”

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279. “That there was in her life the absence of something, or someone, fundamental to her own existence. Sometimes it was vague, like a message sent across shadowy byways and vast distances, a weak signal on a radio dial, remote, warbled. Other times it felt so clear, this absence, so intimately close it made her heart lurch.”

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280. “I don’t know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.”

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281. “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.”

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282. “Masalahku adalah selalu ada seseorang yang berjuang untukku.”

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283. “So much had happened since those childhood days, so much that needed to be said. But that first night the enormity of it all stole the words from her. That night, it was blessing enough to be beside him. It was blessing enough to know that he was here, to feel the warmth of him next to her, to lie with him, their heads touching, his right hand laced in her left.”

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284. “Kehidupannya yang diisi dengan kesetiaan tanpa pamrih melayang lepas dari tubuhnya seperti layang-layang tertiup angin yang sering kali dikejarnya.”

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285. “I watched Baba’s car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.”

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286. “There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.”

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287. “I know. I know. But he’s always buried in those books or shuffling around the house like he’s lost in some dream.” “And?” “I wasn’t like that.” Baba sounded frustrated, almost angry. Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t colouring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favourite colours.”

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288. “In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.”

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289. “Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.”

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290. “Jika kau sudah hidup selama aku, kau akan mengerti bahwa kekejaman dan kemuliaan hanyalah nuansa yang berbeda dari warna yang sama.”

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291. “How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being.”

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292. “A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”

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293. “Laila sees something behind this young girl’s eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that, in the end, will be her undoing and Laila’s salvation.”

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294. “She wished she could visit Mariam’s grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But Laila sees now that it doesn’t matter. Mariam is never very far. She is here, in these walls they’ve repainted, in the trees they’ve planted, in the blankets that keep the children warm, in these pillows and books and pencils.”

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295. “At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.”

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296. “I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He’d carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he’d pull for us from the tandoor’s roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.”

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297. “A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.”

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298. “Mariam longed to place a ruler on a page and draw important-looking lines.”

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299. “I didn’t know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.”

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300. “He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.”

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