Khaled Hosseini Quotes

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as...

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drin...

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him ...

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

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open an...

Come. There is a way to be good again...

He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

There is only one sin, only one, and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When yo...

Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!

I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.

Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-...

Zendagi Migzara

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Fars...

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathe...

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe ag...

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what wa...

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the o...

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unk...

I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them ...

On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, ...

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is...

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education ...

Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague....

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I rem...

Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie any...

I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. ...

I sat against one of the house’s clay walls. The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land... it surp...

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling bu...

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

I welcome you to my home as my son, as the husband of my daughter who is the noor of my eye. Your pa...

There is a way to be good again...

Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said....

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was anothe...

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down th...

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course...

Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.

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

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the tru...

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of ...

... there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all ...

I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope yo...

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

Sad stories make good books

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing d...

Mamà believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always...

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of wri...

What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with r...

They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that y...

I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I h...

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by ...

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes a...

war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars wi...

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in han...

I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless ride...

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old s...

They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle di...

He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To...

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of s...

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your...

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control w...

She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more...

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was...

Who rebels with mathematics?

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, t...

Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sh...

The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I ...

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But they are things that, well, you...

At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancin...

And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arab...

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, educa...

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and year...

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; ...

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they coul...

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unki...

Once, when I was little, I asked her if she’d cried when my father had fallen to his death.At the fu...

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. Ho...

He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn'...

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happ...

Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to...

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the w...

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exh...

The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip...