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Only Quotes by Khaled Hosseini
- There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
- You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.
- And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous…
- Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
- It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.…
- She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I…
- 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…
- I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a…
- sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is…
- the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
- You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila…
- But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her
- She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There,…
- Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of…
- No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether…
- They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life…
- You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot…
- What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of…
- The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.
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