Frases de Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini é um romancista e médico afegão, com naturalização estadunidense. É o autor do romance best-seller, The Kite Runner .

Hosseini nasceu em Cabul, no Afeganistão. Seu pai trabalhava como diplomata, e quando ele tinha 11 anos, a família se mudou para a França, quatro anos mais tarde, pediu asilo nos Estados Unidos. Ele frequentou a escola na América com pouco conhecimento da língua inglesa, no momento e mais tarde tornou-se um cidadão. Hosseini não retornou ao Afeganistão até 2003 com 38 anos de idade, onde "me senti como um turista em [meu] próprio país." Em entrevistas sobre a experiência, ele admitiu que às vezes sentiu culpa por ter sobrevivido por ter sido capaz de deixar o país antes da invasão soviética e das guerras subsequentes.

Todos os três de seus romances se tornaram best-sellers, com The Kite Runner que passou 101 semanas na lista de bestsellers , como livro de bolso. Em 2007, The Kite Runner foi seguido por A Thousand Splendid Suns, que passou 21 semanas na lista do New York Times Best Seller de ficção e 49 semanas na lista do New York Times Best Seller de livros de capa dura . Os dois romances já venderam mais de 38 milhões de cópias internacionalmente. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Março 1965
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Khaled Hosseini: 252   citações 3   Curtidas

Khaled Hosseini Frases famosas

“Crueldade e benevolência são tonalidades da mesma cor.”

O Silêncio da Montanhas

Citações de pessoas de Khaled Hosseini

“Algumas pessoas escondem muito bem a própria tristeza.”

O Silêncio da Montanhas

Khaled Hosseini frases e citações

“Por ti lo haria mil veces mas”

The Kite Runner

“Cabul é… — Idris busca as palavras certas.”

… mil tragédias por quilômetro quadrado."
O Silêncio da Montanhas

“Todo mundo engana e todo mundo mente.”

O Silêncio da Montanhas

Khaled Hosseini: Frases em inglês

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

Khaled Hosseini livro The Kite Runner

Fonte: The Kite Runner

“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”

Khaled Hosseini livro A Thousand Splendid Suns

Fonte: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“she is theof my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”

Khaled Hosseini livro A Thousand Splendid Suns

Fonte: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”

Khaled Hosseini livro And the Mountains Echoed

Fonte: And the Mountains Echoed (2013)

“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”

Khaled Hosseini livro The Kite Runner

Original: (99) Rahim Khan
Variante: It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Fonte: The Kite Runner (2003)

“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”

Khaled Hosseini livro And the Mountains Echoed

Fonte: And the Mountains Echoed

“You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”

Khaled Hosseini livro The Kite Runner

Fonte: The Kite Runner

“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”

Khaled Hosseini livro The Kite Runner

Fonte: The Kite Runner (2003)
Contexto: With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”

Khaled Hosseini livro And the Mountains Echoed

Fonte: And the Mountains Echoed

“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”

Khaled Hosseini livro A Thousand Splendid Suns

Fonte: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

Khaled Hosseini livro A Thousand Splendid Suns

Fonte: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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 companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”

Khaled Hosseini livro A Thousand Splendid Suns

Mariam, p. 370
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Contexto: She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.