Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I was not altogether surprised to learn that she had taken her own life. I know now that some people feel unhappiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“she had hang up knowing that for the rest of her life it would slam into her at random moments, the guilt,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I had always pictured her living a tumultuous, wayward life, hard years of bad luck-fits and starts,collapse,regret-and ill advised, desperate love affairs.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thou didst it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived?… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God. O Ali, Lion of God, King of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
