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Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist, best known for his novel 'The Kite Runner,' which has become a global bestseller. The story, centered around themes of friendship, betrayal, and redemption, has resonated with readers worldwide. Hosseini's works often focus on the history and culture of Afghanistan, as well as the complexities of human nature.

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Famous Khaled Hosseini Quotes

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

Men Women Violence Sad Alone Man S Heart

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had too much of a tendency to want to rule by listening to all voices at all times.”

People Thinking Men Want Kind Care President Voice Pleasure Too Much Listening Meetings Tendencies All Time Decent Decent Man

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.”

Thinking Men World Needs Problem Fingers Solve Accusing

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.”

Men Heart Joy Names Kings Mountain Lions Cried Sorrowful

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.”

Men Character Happens Novel Demand Majors Female Prejudice Narrative Runners Discomfort Female Characters Kites

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”

Men Women Thousand Fingers Compass Splendid Needles Accusing Accusing Me

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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 a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”

Source: The Kite Runner

“Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.”

Men Mind Wells Said Hands Easy Simple Surprise Fingers Desks Tapping Plumbing Mahogany

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”

Men Night Tenderness

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”

Men Heart Mother Rooms Wretched Womb Like A Mother

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.”

Ifs Men Needs Said Book Reading Urgent

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”

Men Children Lying Father Wife Husband Stealing Fairness Cheat

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

Men Doe Suffering Goodness Conscience

Book:The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.”

Ifs Men Married Mirrors Conviction Remembered

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor.”

Men Want Said America Office Welfare Afghanistan Desks Stamps Baba Tumors Food Stamps Free Money

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran”

Men Children Care Running Faces Wind Lips Wide Ran Valleys Swarms Grown Man Wind Blowing

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Needs Stills War Young Girl Waiting Chance Thousand Smart Afghanistan I Want You Young Women Splendid Need You Uneducated Afghan

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?”

Men Names Mines Disease Fellows Graves Parkinson

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

About the Author

Born: March 4, 1965
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 466

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