Top 34 Best Hosseini Quotes
#1. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.
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#2. At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
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#3. Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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#4. Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you?
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#5. A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.
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#6. For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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#7. Clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.
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#9. People ... 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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#10. The world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.
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#11. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.
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#12. From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila
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#13. For a few unfortunate kids, winter did not spell the end of the school year. There were the so-called voluntary winter courses. No kid I knew ever volunteered to go to these classes; parents, of course, did the volunteering for them.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. All
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#19. What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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#20. Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.
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#21. In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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#22. But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
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#23. J'aurais du etre plus gentille - I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret.
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#24. You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want a good life for me. You're the one with the wretched heart.
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#25. I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.
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#26. Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
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#27. I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.
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#28. Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.
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#29. I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
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#31. I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart
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#32. Thats the thing about people who mean every thing they say. They think everybody else does too.
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#33. Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.
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#34. Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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