Khaled Hosseini: Quotes about people

“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”

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)

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

Source: The Kite Runner

“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.”

Source: The Kite Runner

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

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

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

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

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

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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.”

Source: The Kite Runner

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

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

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

Source: The Kite Runner

“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.”

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

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

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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.”

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).

“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”

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

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

Source: The Kite Runner

“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.”

Source: And the Mountains Echoed