913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

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    And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you.

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    I promised myself that I would talk to her before the summer was over, but schools reopened, the leaves reddened, yellowed, and fell, the rains of winter swept in and wakened Baba’s joints, baby leaves sprouted once more, and I still hadn’t had the heart, the dil, to even look her in the eye.

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    Dostet darum.” I love you. “I love you back,” she said. I could hear the smile in her words. “And be careful.

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    I watched Baba’s car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.

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    For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness.

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    Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it’s either before or after they’ve blown something up.

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    Hassan couldn’t read a first-grade textbook but he’d read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

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    Untukmu keseribu kalinya – Hassan si pengejar layang-layang berbibir sumbing.

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