Khaled Hosseini: Quotes about people

Khaled Hosseini is novelist. Explore interesting quotes on people.
Khaled Hosseini: 452   quotes 33   likes

“I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how 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.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

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)

Death , People , Way , Loss

“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”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People , Memory

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People , Thinking

“It's a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

People , Thinking

“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Love , People , Way , Feeling

“yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Love , People , Way

“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People , Hurt

“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.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Women , People , World , Suffering

“I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People , Books

“People learned to live with the
most unimaginable things.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

People , Learning

“People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Love , Children , People

“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).

People , Time

“Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

People , Dreams , Suffering

“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”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People , Smile , Thinking

“People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

People , Sense

“But that's what I'm saying to you… That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

(319) Amir
The Kite Runner (2003)

People , World

“Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Assef (35)
The Kite Runner (2003)

People

“Ali and Sanaubar had little in common, least of all their respective appearances. While Sanaubar’s brilliant green eyes and impish face had, rumor has it, tempted countless men into sin, Ali had a congenital paralysis of his lower facial muscles, a condition that rendered him unable to smile and left him perpetually grim-faced. It was an odd thing to see the stone-faced Ali happy, or sad, because only his slanted brown eyes glinted with a smile or welled with sorrow. People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes.I have heard that Sanaubar’s suggestive stride and oscillating hips sent men to reveries of infidelity.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003), Ch. 2

Men , People , Sadness , Smile