Top 100 Hosseini Quotes
#2. 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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#3. At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
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#4. Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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#5. Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you?
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#6. A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.
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#7. For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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#8. Clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. All
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#20. What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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#21. 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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#22. In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
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#23. But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
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#24. J'aurais du etre plus gentille - I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
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#28. 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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#29. Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.
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#30. 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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#32. 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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#33. Thats the thing about people who mean every thing they say. They think everybody else does too.
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#34. I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
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#35. I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.
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#38. He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.
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#39. It was like waking up one morning and finding that a wild animal has wandered into your house. No place felt safe to me.
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#40. Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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#41. Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.
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#42. Could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink your aspirations before your very eyes.
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#44. And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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#47. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.
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#48. Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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#49. A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated ...
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#51. Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin-roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. It was as though a rainbow had melted into her eyes. Rasheed
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#52. We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book.
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#53. Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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#54. I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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#55. Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand ...
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#56. I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great
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#57. EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
NW: Yes, but I did it the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebels with mathematics?
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#58. People learned to live with the
most unimaginable things.
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#59. Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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#61. Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
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#62. Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
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#63. Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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#64. America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.
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#65. A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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#68. Happiness like this is frightening ... they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you
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#70. I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, insanely, and without recourse
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#71. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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#72. Hadn't we both yearned for escape, reinvention, new identities? Hadn't we each, in the end, unmoored ourselves by cutting loose the anchors that weighed us down?
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#73. With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets.
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#74. There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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#75. Masooma." "Could you?" "I could try," Parwana says. "Good. Then marry Saboor. Look after his
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#76. The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can't get rid of, and I've got to see it through.
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#79. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far.
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#80. 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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#81. They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.
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#82. 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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#83. He's a doctor," Timur says. "Ah? It must be shocking for you, then. This hospital.
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#84. soon after we arrived in the U.S., Baba started grumbling about American flies. He'd sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, harried and rushed. "In this country, even flies are pressed for time," he'd groan.
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#85. But time, it is like a charm. You never have as much as you think.
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#86. My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.
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#87. This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings.
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#88. You know nothing of courage." said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose." You have your life to lose, said the div. "You already took that from me.
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#89. After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons?
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#90. 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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#91. Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.
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#92. There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
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#93. Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises. Then they go home and show their families. LIke she is zoo animal. I allow it because I think maybe they will help. But they forget. I never hear from them.
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#94. I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#100. I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.
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