Bursting Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“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

“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

“For a long time, they leaned against the wall, foreheads pressed together, breathing matched. They were one body, bound by the passion they’d shared.…

— Jess Michaels

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

“Laila imagines she sees little Mariam there in the hut as a woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without…

— Khaled Hosseini

“It amazed me. Maria had been brought up in this place, and yet she had shone like a kingfisher flickering across the water. Perhaps…

— Alex Reeve

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll's head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her. But as she…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave is old,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“At that moment, Maria learned that certain things are lost forever.”

— Paulo Coelho

“She had no need in her heart for either book or magazine. She had her own way of escape, her own passage into contentment:…

— John Fante