Quotes from Khaled Hosseini

she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.

Mereka tidak melakukan apa pun kecuali menghitung butiran tasbih dan memamerkan hafalan isi kitab yang ditulis dalam bahasa yang tidak mereka pahami. Kuharap Tuhan melindungi kita semua jika suatu saat nanti Afganistan jatuh ke tangan mereka.

For courage, there must be something at stake.

Zendagi migzara," he said. Life goes on.

there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing." ? Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Of course, it wouldn't have happened if Mammy had shown up like she was supposed to either. Sometimes Laila wondered why Mammy had even bothered having her. People, she believed now, shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.

I was glad I didn't have to return his gaze. Did he know I knew? And if he knew, then what would I see if I did look in his eyes? Blame? Indignation? Or, God forbid, what I feared most: guileless devotion?

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great. That's very good. We're a melancholic people, we Afghans, aren't we? Often, we wallow too much in ghamkhori and self-pity. We give in to loss, to suffering, accept it as a fact of life, even see it as necessary. Zendagi migzara, we say, life goes on.

Confía tu secreto al viento, pero luego no le reproches que se lo cuente a los árboles.

So much had happened since those childhood days, so much that needed to be said. But that first night the enormity of it all stole the words from her. That night, it was blessing enough to be beside him. It was blessing enough to know that he was here, to feel the warmth of him next to her, to lie with him, their heads touching, his right hand laced in her left.

My dear Martin, in the long summer of childhood, when I was a boy the age you are now, your uncles and I spread our mattress on the roof of your grandfather's farmhouse outside of Homs.

A person has to have a flaw somewhere.

one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart.

Tak ada tindakan yang lebih buruk daripada mencuri. Orang yang mengambil sesuatu yang bukan haknya, baik itu kehidupan orang lain ataupun sepotong naan.

Bir baÅŸkas?n?n yüreÄŸini, yüreÄŸinden geçenleri yarg?larken, kiÅŸi bir miktar da olsa alçakgönüllülükten ve yard?mseverlikten nasibini alm?? olmal?.

The previous year, Baba had surprised Hassan with a leather cowboy hat just like the one Clint Eastwood wore in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—which had unseated The Magnificent Seven as our favorite Western.

YaÅŸam?nda bir amaç bul ve ona göre yaÅŸa, derler. Ama bazen, ancak yaÅŸay?p bitirdikten sonra yaÅŸam?n?n bir amac? olduÄŸunu fark edersin, bu da genellikle hiç akl?nda olmayan bir amaçt?r.

Mereka bernasib naas, memiliki ayah yang lemah. Seorang pengecut yang lebih memilih melihat mereka semua mati daripada menyiksa nuraninya sendiri.

Les enfants ne sont pas des livres de coloriage. Tu ne peux pas les peindre avec tes couleurs préférées. The kite runner

Ä°zin veriyorum, çünkü belki yard?mlar? dokunur, diyorum. Ama unutup gidiyorlar. Bir daha onlardan haber alm?yorum. Onun için de sana soruyorum: Åžimdi ne olacak?

?udno je to, Markose, ali ljudi obi?no sve shvataju pogrešno. Misle da žive kako žele. Ali ono što ih stvarno vodi su stvari kojih se boje. Ono što ne žele.

Forse, capire quando non si può più cambiare nulla è la giusta punizione per chi è stato spietato.

Mislim da je istina u tome da ?ekamo, svi mi, uprkos nepremostivim preprekama da nam se dogodi nešto izuzetno.

he would not miss him as she did now, when the ache of his absence was her unremitting companion-like the phantom pain of an amputee