{"author":"Khaled Hosseini","author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini","total_quotes":155,"quotes":[{"text":"A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["creativity","writing"],"id":2643,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["education"],"id":12757,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["beauty","danger","irony"],"id":13481,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["beautiful","heartwrenching"],"id":22719,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"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.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["allah","god","muslim"],"id":24054,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"... There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["sin"],"id":28132,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"For you, a thousand times over!","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["friendship","inspirational","love","the-kite-runner"],"id":33095,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"Come. There is a way to be good again...","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["forgiveness","second-chances"],"id":33800,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"You say you have no courage, but I see it in you. What you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. For that, I honor you.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["courage","inspirational","respect"],"id":53384,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["loss","punishment"],"id":60543,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":155,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}