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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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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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

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Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

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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 t...

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There is a way to be good again...

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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

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Sad stories make good books

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Theft is the one unforgivable sin, the one common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When...

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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir

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In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

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There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

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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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When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

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She lived to see him turn four, and then, one morning, she just did not wake up. She looked calm, at peace, like she did not mind dying now. We buried her in the cemetery on the hill, the one by the pomegranate tree, and I said a prayer for her too. ...

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it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

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

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Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

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I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have to...

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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 ...

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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