Khaled Hosseinithe past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). A Thousand Splendid Suns, p.161,… ▶371HopeLovePhilosophy
Khaled HosseiniBeauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2013). And the Mountains Echoed, p.329, A&C Black371Thought
Khaled HosseiniA society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated. ✨ Twitter post from Jun 28, 2015361Humanity
Khaled HosseiniBut Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What g… ▶361Hope
Khaled HosseiniPeople say that eyes are windows to the soul. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2011). The Kite Runner: Rejacketed, p.7, A&C Black361Humanity
Khaled HosseiniA 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. ✨ Kha… ▶361Humanity
Khaled HosseiniThere is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.373Truth
Khaled HosseiniYears later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2004). The Kit… ▶351Truth
Khaled HosseiniThere will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.351Truth
Khaled HosseiniQuiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2010). The Com… ▶352Life
Khaled HosseiniAfter all, life is not a Hindi movie. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2010). The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set, p.162, A&C Black341Life
Khaled HosseiniThey say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind… ▶363LifeThoughtTime
Khaled HosseiniI 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… ▶342LifeLoveSadness
Khaled HosseiniLife is a train, get on board. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2011). The Kite Runner: Rejacketed, p.161, A&C Black331Life
Khaled HosseiniI was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege. ✨ This much I know. Inte… ▶343HumanityTime
Khaled HosseiniYou see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). A Thousand Splendid Sun… ▶365Reading
Khaled Hosseiniit always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2011). The Kite Runner: Rejacketed, p.185, A&C Black332Truth
Khaled HosseiniI brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2010). The Comp… ▶332Love
Khaled HosseiniYour job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). The Kite Runner, p.250, A&C Black343Death
Khaled HosseiniYou say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.343Sadness
Khaled HosseiniWhen you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2013). And the Mountains E… ▶376Humanity
Khaled HosseiniThe 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 … ▶332HumanityThought
Khaled HosseiniHe is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2013). An… ▶332Humor
Khaled HosseiniThe Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2010). The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set, p.326, A&C Black… ▶321Sadness
Khaled HosseiniI’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing! ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). A Thousand Splendid Suns, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishin… ▶354Love
Khaled HosseiniIn many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create. ✨ This much I know. Interview with… ▶333Thought
Khaled HosseiniI think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.344Thought
Khaled HosseiniAir grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2011). The Kite Runner: Rejacketed, p.27, A&C Black377Love
Khaled HosseiniI don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2013). And the Mo… ▶344Thought
Khaled HosseiniI 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 … ▶366LoveTime
