Khaled Hosseini Short Quotes

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A gold pendent with stars and moons hanging from it.

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Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

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You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

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How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?

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

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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

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Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

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There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

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In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

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Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.

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Tell your secrets to the wind but don't blame it for telling the trees.

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

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Time can be a greedy thing — sometimes it steals the details for itself.

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I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

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The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

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

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I dream of you too. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter.

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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

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

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

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The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

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

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You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

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All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

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But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

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