At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you’re going to sleep, the ones… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“This is what aging is...these random unkind moments that catch you when you least expect them.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“At the time, I must have been in my late twenties, a young man at the prime of his desires for a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on… — 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
“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
“Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“For a time, I was quite literally at loss as to what to do with myself. For more than half a century… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Thinking of the anguish of his final days and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging… — 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
“…and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a moan - to salvage from perishing, to preserve. But time… — 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
“For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But they were wasting their time. Because Hassan stood with his arms wide open, smiling, waiting for the kite. And may God—if… — 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
“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
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