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Laila, p. 395
Variant: Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
Khaled Hosseini Quotes about people
“I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini Quotes about life
“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
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“For you, a thousand times over.”
(2) - Hassan, Amir
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini Quotes
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“There is a way to be good again.”
(2) - Rahim Khan
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
Baba (115)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Baba (58)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana”
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
Variant: Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“she is theof my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed (2013)
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
Original: (99) Rahim Khan
Variant: It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Context: With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam, p. 370
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
