The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
KHALED HOSSEINIHills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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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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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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 had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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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 do not need telling.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
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