“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
Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. — 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 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
“It feels as though there is a gaping hole in the middle of everything. The decades of my mother's life here with… — 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
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
“Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your… — 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
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
All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.” — 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
