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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.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“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.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“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.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003), Ch. 2
Context: Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words.Mine was Baba.His was Amir. My name.Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975—and all that followed—was already laid in those first words (11).

“After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“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.”

Khaled Hosseini

“He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“It was you Nabi.
It was always you.
Didn't you know?”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Give sustenance, Allah.
Give sustenance to me.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

“If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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?”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Variant: When you kill a man, you steal a life. 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.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Context: There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.... When you kill a man, you steal a life. 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.

“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“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.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“I guess some stories do not need telling.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner