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,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“..But time can be a greedy thing- sometimes it steals all the details for itself” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“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
“That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever… — 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 Arabic words… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But in my quiet moments, in those long rides in the back of a bus or the bed of a truck, my… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and… — 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
“Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. Laila bore… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories.” — 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
“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
“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
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
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to… — 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
“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
“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
“This is what aging is...these random unkind moments that catch you when you least expect them.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her. But… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“for the first time since we had crossed the border, I felt like I was back. After all these years, I was… — 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
