“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. — 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
“I dare, I dare allow myself the hope that, after you read this, you will be more charitable to me than I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“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 Image
