Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

About Khaled Hosseini:

Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage". He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner he retired from medicine to write full-time.
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Marriage can wait, education cannot.

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‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. 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 thi...

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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 too . Mrariam jo , ...

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The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.

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And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted th...

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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

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With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when [she] would no lo...

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I will follow you to the ends of the world.

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If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

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Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

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

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Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

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Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence.

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Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which old Pashto songs were sometimes played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence.

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

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She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

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The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

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In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing ...

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Author Bio

  • NameKhaled Hosseini
  • Descriptionnovelist
  • BornMarch 4, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysician; Novelist; Writer
  • WorksThe Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns; And The Mountains Echoed
  • AwardsThe Nichols-Chancellor's Medal