Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.

You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking.

That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

Do not do that again," he said stiffly. "Don't kiss me back then," I retorted. He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I don't give 'Zen lessons' to hear myself talk. I don't give them because you're another student. I'm doing this to teach you control." "You're doing a great job," I said bitterly.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.

-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and so I wrote the song and mailed them the lyrics. They didn't call me back, but two years later it's come full circle.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.

As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended