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Been Quotes by Khaled Hosseini
- When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means…
- Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
- I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
- That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found…
- All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.
- Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
- Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.
- and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a…
- I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise…
- there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This…
- As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories…
- If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if…
- You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
- Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she…
- In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
- Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked…
- Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
- J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when…
- The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But…
- I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with…
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