Top 380 Khaled Hosseini Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “My dear Martin, in the long summer of childhood, when I was a boy the age you are now, your uncles and I spread our mattress on the roof of your grandfather’s farmhouse outside of Homs.”

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303. “Infilai la foto dove l’avevo trovata. Mi resi conto che quei pensieri non mi avevano ferito. Chiudendo la porta della stanza mi chiesi se quello fosse il modo in cui sboccia il perdono, non con le fanfare di una epifania, ma con il dolore che, nel cuore della notte, fa i bagagli e si allontana senza nemmeno avvisare.”

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304. “The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don’t like to read.”

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305. “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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306. “For courage, there must be something at stake.”

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307. “I know you’re still young, but I want you to understand and learn this now, he said. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You’re a very, very bright girl. Truly, you are. You can be anything you want, Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.”

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308. “A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.”

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309. “Prinsip Baba dalam menyelenggarakan pesta adalah: Bukan pesta kalau kau tidak mengundang semua orang di seluruh dunia.”

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310. “And, just like that, he had thrown at me his own little test. If I was going to toy with him and challenge his loyalty, then he would toy with me, test my integrity.”

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311. “But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.”

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312. “My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.”

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313. “Katakan padanya, biar seribu peluru menembus tubuhku, aku tetap tidak akan membiarkan perilaku tidak senonohnya.”

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314. “She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How shr could ever cope with his permanent absence?”

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315. “Mereka tidak melakukan apa pun kecuali menghitung butiran tasbih dan memamerkan hafalan isi kitab yang ditulis dalam bahasa yang tidak mereka pahami. Kuharap Tuhan melindungi kita semua jika suatu saat nanti Afganistan jatuh ke tangan mereka.”

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316. “Entering my childhood home is a little disorienting, like reading the end of a novel that I’d started, then abandoned, long ago.”

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317. “It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms.”

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318. “A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.”

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319. “Kalau kau membunuh seorang pria kau mencuri kehidupannya. Kau mencuri seorang suami dari istrinya, merampok seorang ayah dari anak-anaknya. Kalau kau menipu, kau mencuri hak seseorang untuk mendapatkan kebenaran. Kalau kau berbuat curang, kau mencuri hak seseorang untuk mendapatkan keadilan.”

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320. “Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.”

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321. “The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word ‘senseless’ springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It’s what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.”

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322. “So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don’t either of you ask me for more.”

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323. “He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.”

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324. “Of course, it wouldn’t have happened if Mammy had shown up like she was supposed to either. Sometimes Laila wondered why Mammy had even bothered having her. People, she believed now, shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.”

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325. “He’s a doctor,” Timur says. “Ah? It must be shocking for you, then. This hospital.”

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326. “There isn’t, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.”

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327. “I dare, I dare allow myself the hope that, after you read this, you will be more charitable to me than I ever was to you. That you might find it in your heart to come and see your father. That you will knock on my door one more time and give me the chance to open it this time, to welcome you, to take you in my arms, my daughter, as I should have done all those years ago. It is a hope as weak as my heart. This I know. But I will be waiting. I will be listening for your knock. I will be hoping.”

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328. “Tapi tentu saja, memang gampang menjadi pintar kalau kamu punya senjata yang siap dipakai.”

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329. “Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist.”

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330. “She wondered what it would be like to live with him, to see him every day. She pictured herself handing him a towel as he shaved, telling him when he nicked himself.”

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331. “Kalau kau tidak terus-terusan melihat ke langit, kau tidak akan bertahan lama.”

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332. “The previous year, Baba had surprised Hassan with a leather cowboy hat just like the one Clint Eastwood wore in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – which had unseated The Magnificent Seven as our favorite Western.”

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333. “For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness.”

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334. “Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And.”

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335. “Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.”

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336. “I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It’s the only way I know how to write.”

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337. “If I’ve learned anything in Kabul, it is that human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.”

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338. “I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.”

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339. “In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.”

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340. “They feel wronged. they haven’t been given their due. No one loved them enough. Of course they expect you to love them. They want to be held, rocked, reassured. But it’s a mistake to give it to them. They can’t accept it. They can’t accept the very thing they’re needing. They end up hating you for it. And it never ends because they can’t hate you enough. It never ends – the misery, the apologies, the promises, the reneging, the wretchedness of it all.”

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341. “Seseorang yang sebelumnya menyemir sepatumu, tidak mungkin menjadi ‘saudara perempuanmu’ keesokan harinya.”

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342. “He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn’t. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes.”

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343. “I don’t listen to music when I write – I find it distracting.”

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344. “Kami meninggalkan mayat-mayat itu di jalan, dan kalau keluarga mereka mencoba menyelinap untuk menyeret kembali mayat-mayat itu ke rumah mereka, kami tak akan ragu menembak mereka. Kami membiarkan mayat-mayat itu menjadi santapan anjing. Daging anjing hanya cocok untuk anjing.”

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345. “You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you’ll lose heart.”

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346. “Pembelaan diri tidak ada hubungannya dengan kekejaman.”

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347. “She turned it so the sharp edge was vertical, and, as she did, it occurred to her that this was the first time that she was deciding the course of her own life.”

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348. “When guilt leads to good.”

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349. “It’s a half bridge, really, as only four of its original arches remain. It ends midway across the river. Like it reached, tried to reunite with, the other side and fell short.”

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350. “Itukan hanya mimpi Amir agha. Dalam mimpi kita bisa melakukan apa saja – Hassan.”

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