Khaled Hosseini quotes - page 10

Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys. (Khaled Hosseini)
Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time. View quote
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She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me. View quote
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How seamless seemed love and then came trouble! View quote
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It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. View quote
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No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love. View quote
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It does not frighten me to leave this life that my only son left five years ago, this life that insists we bear sorrow upon sorrow long after we can bear no more. No, I believe I shall gladly take my leave when the time comes. What frightens me, hamshira, is the day God summons me before him and asks, Why did you not do as I said, Mullah? Why did you not obey my laws? How shall I explain myself to him, hamshira? View quote
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I 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. View quote
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I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. View quote
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. View quote
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. (Khaled Hosseini)
My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write. View quote
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The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. View quote
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. View quote
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting. View quote
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. View quote
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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. View quote
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People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. View quote
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In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst. View quote
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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. View quote
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Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. (Khaled Hosseini)
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. View quote
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I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. View quote
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. View quote
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. View quote
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