Khaled Hosseini: Quotes about life
Khaled Hosseini is novelist. Explore interesting quotes on life.Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”
Source: The Kite Runner
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Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Life is a train, get on board.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
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.
“After all, life is not a Hindi movie.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Talib Judge, p. 366
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
What will be my defense for not heeding His commands? All I can do, all any of us can do, in the time we are granted, is to go on abiding by the laws He has set for us. The clearer I see my end, hamsira, the nearer I am to my day of reckoning, the more determined I grow to carry out His word. However painful it may prove.
Talib Judge, p. 366
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)