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I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.


Khaled Hosseini

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"From what?"
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KHALED HOSSEINI And I wrote you.
Volumes.
Volumes.
KHALED HOSSEINI Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
...
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KHALED HOSSEINI It was you Nabi.
It was always you.
Didn't you know?
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KHALED HOSSEINI Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
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Give sustenance to me.
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His saying that made me kind of...
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KHALED HOSSEINI قلب الرجل مثير للأسى،،إنه مثير للأسى يا مريم،،إنه ليس �...
KHALED HOSSEINI Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
KHALED HOSSEINI Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your...
KHALED HOSSEINI Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.”
“Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was anothe...
KHALED HOSSEINI I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they would...
KHALED HOSSEINI Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".
KHALED HOSSEINI The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip...
KHALED HOSSEINI Love is a damaging mistake, and it's accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion" A Thousand Splendid S...
KHALED HOSSEINI When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...
KHALED HOSSEINI I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn...
KHALED HOSSEINI I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...
KHALED HOSSEINI Dia berhenti bicara kepada warga desa, karena dia yakin bahwa mereka menggunjingkannya di belakang p...
KHALED HOSSEINI Sad znam da neki ljudi proživljavaju nesreću onako kao što drugi proživljavaju ljubav: samotno, ...
KHALED HOSSEINI E, no final das contas, a pergunta que acabava sempre se impondo era: como é que eu, entre todas as...
KHALED HOSSEINI Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro.
KHALED HOSSEINI Zendagi migzara. Life goes on.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kau tak tahu apa-apa soal keberanian. Untuk menjadi berani, harus ada yang dipertaruhkan. Aku datang...
KHALED HOSSEINI Katamu kau tak punya keberanian. tapi aku melihatnya di dalam dirimu. Perbuatanmu, beban yang kau ta...
KHALED HOSSEINI I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal’s eyes. Absurdly, I imagine the animal un...
KHALED HOSSEINI Abollah?"

"Ya."

"Kalau aku sudah besar nanti, akankah aku tinggal bersamamu?"<...
KHALED HOSSEINI Aku akan membawanya pulang, pikir Baba Ayub ketika itu juga. Inilah yang paling diinginkannya, bersa...
KHALED HOSSEINI Kulihat peri kecil muram
Di keteduhan pohon kertas.
Kumengenal peri kecil muram
Yang ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Ada sebongkah batu di pinggir ladangnya, dan dia duduk di permukaannya yang datar. Dia kerap duduk d...
KHALED HOSSEINI Dan jika kau miskin, penderitaan menjadi mata uangmu.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kažu pronađi svrhu u životu i ostvari je. Ali katkad, tek nakon što ga proživiš, uvidiš da je...
KHALED HOSSEINI He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.
KHALED HOSSEINI Mereka bernasib naas, memiliki ayah yang lemah. Seorang pengecut yang lebih memilih melihat mereka s...
KHALED HOSSEINI Itukan hanya mimpi Amir agha. Dalam mimpi kita bisa melakukan apa saja - Hassan
KHALED HOSSEINI They only make you so happy when they are about to take something from you
KHALED HOSSEINI I want to scream again, and I remember that last time I felt this way, riding with Baba in the tank ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Seruas jari harus dipotong untuk menyelamatkan tangan.
KHALED HOSSEINI Jika kau sudah hidup selama aku, kau akan mengerti bahwa kekejaman dan kemuliaan hanyalah nuansa yan...
KHALED HOSSEINI I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankf...
KHALED HOSSEINI I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know withi...
KHALED HOSSEINI At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cann...
KHALED HOSSEINI I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't...
KHALED HOSSEINI I found a sad little fairy
Beneath the shade of a paper tree.
I know a sad little fairy KHALED HOSSEINI She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a l...
KHALED HOSSEINI I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of...
KHALED HOSSEINI He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms in...
KHALED HOSSEINI But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not,...
KHALED HOSSEINI The finger cut, to save the hand.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.
KHALED HOSSEINI For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
KHALED HOSSEINI