Khaled Hosseini quotes - page 9

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become. (Khaled Hosseini)
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing. View quote
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories. View quote
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I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening... They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you. View quote
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I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise. View quote
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He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. View quote
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Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn't breathe God would grant her another day with Jalil. View quote
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But even when he wasn't around, he was. View quote
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A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand... well, God put a lot of thought in making you. View quote
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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. View quote
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In 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. (Khaled Hosseini)
Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam. View quote
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. View quote
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Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. View quote
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Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer. View quote
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A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied butby the turbulence that washes over her. View quote
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Look at me, Mariam.' Reluctantly, Mariam did. Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam. View quote
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For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms. View quote
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You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you. View quote
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. View quote
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Awake. And alone with demons of my own. (Khaled Hosseini)
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. View quote
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Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn't look forced. And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. View quote
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy. View quote
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In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them. View quote
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