Khaled Hosseini Quotes
b. 1965 Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965) is a physician and author of the best selling novel, The Kite Runner.
Also known as: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Kite Runner, The Kite Runner
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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.
The Kite Runner (2003)
She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.
The Kite Runner (2003)
I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I? The least I could have done was to have the decency to have turned out a little more like him.
The Kite Runner (2003)
*Mariam is having a flashback*
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
It wasn't easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. And Mariam was afraid.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)