I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“It was a spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him… — 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
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There is a way to be good again For you, a thousand times over Not a word passes between us, not because… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Now I was free to do as I wished, but I found the freedom illusory, for what I wished for the most… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children… — 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
