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“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

World , Dreams , Hope , Learning

“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

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)

World , Way

“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Idea

“Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Understanding

“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Thinking , Personality

“Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. '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 into making you.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Men , God

“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.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Happiness

“The problem, of course, was that [he] 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.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

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.

Love , Hate , World , Fear

“A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Training

“Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Life

“Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Friendship , Way , Boy , Sun

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Life , Sad

“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Girl , Game

“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Hope

“and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”

Khaled Hosseini book 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.

Love , World , Personality

“When 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 book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Color

“You 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.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Pain , Sense , Hurt