Accomplices Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the…

— Khaled Hosseini

“There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Maria was not permitted to walk in the garden; but sometimes, from her window, she turned her eyes from the gloomy walls, in which…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

— Khaled Hosseini

At first, she loved nought else but flowers, And then-she only loved the rose; And then-herself alone; and then- She knew not what, but…

— Ridgely Torrence

“Do not be cheated by the beauty of every flowers from far, because there is a flower which it is a thorn hurts you.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent…

— Sigrid Undset

“But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of drawers, for…

— Joyce Lankester Brisley

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.”

— Nenia Campbell

“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Maktub,” I whispered, holding her close. The word was tattooed on both of our wrists, meaning ‘it is written.’ Everything in life happened for…

— Brittainy C. Cherry