Khaled Hosseini quotes - page 6

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey. (Khaled Hosseini)
No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life. View quote
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She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor. View quote
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I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good. View quote
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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. View quote
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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd live to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me. View quote
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You can not stop you from being who you are. View quote
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People learned to live with the most unimaginable things. View quote
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But then it passed, as all things do. View quote
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she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn't breathe, God would grant her another day. View quote
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I think he loved us equally, but differently. (Khaled Hosseini)
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. View quote
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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. View quote
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You're not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years. View quote
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I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be. View quote
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. View quote
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There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight. View quote
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There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir. View quote
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He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. View quote
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All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. View quote
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Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me. (Khaled Hosseini)
When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "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 you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see? View quote
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I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great. View quote
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Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not. View quote
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If you were the poor, suffering was your currency. View quote
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