27 Beautifully Insightful Khaled Hosseini Quotes That Will Sooth Your Soul

“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”

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“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”

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“You can not stop you from being who you are.”

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“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”

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“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.’”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“The past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”

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

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

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“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”

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“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, amazon.com

“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father.”

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“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”

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“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”

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“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”

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“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

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

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“Sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”

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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

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“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”

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“Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”

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“If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.”

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“Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com