Quotes from Khaled Hosseini

She said There was comfort to be found in mathematical truths, the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. nothing like life, in other words , he said

That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

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. Do you see? There is no act more wretched than stealing.

Peristiwa itu telah lama berlalu, tapi pengalamanku selama ini menunjukan bahwa kita tak akan pernah bisa mengubur masa lalu. Karena bagaimanapun, masa lalu akan selalu menyeruak mencari jalan keluar.

The suffering, the despair in this place, is like a wave. It rolls out of every bed, smashes against the moldy walls and swoop back toward you. You can drown in it

Kembali ke Kabul bagaikan bertemu kembali dengan seorang teman lama yang telah terlupakan dan mendapatinya hidup menderita, jatuh miskin dan menggelandang.

women and men were equal in every way and there was no reason women should cover if men didn't.

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose.

Un doigt coupé afin de sauver une main.

Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn't look forced. "I know," he said. And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Belki de yüreksizlerin as?l cezas? budur: gerçeÄŸi, iÅŸ iÅŸten geçtikten sonra, art?k yap?labilecek hiçbir ÅŸey kalmad???nda görmek, anlamak.

Quiet is peace. Tranquillity. Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life.

Con el tiempo he descubierto que lo que dicen del pasado, que es posible enterrarlo, no es cierto. Por que el pasado se abre paso a zarpazos.

We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore.

All my life, I have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent. I have been free to observe the glimmering world on the other side, to picture myself in it, if I like. But I have always been contained, hemmed in, by the hard, unyielding confines of the existence

Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. All

Taliban had found the paintings, Tariq said, they'd taken offense at the birds' long, bare legs. After they'd tied the cousin's feet and flogged his soles bloody, they had presented him with a choice: Either destroy the paintings or make the flamingos decent. So the cousin had picked up his brush and painted trousers on every last bird. "And there you have it. Islamic flamingos

largo: —¿Ésta eres tú? —Y éste tú, tío Idris. —¿O sea que antes tenías el pelo largo? —Mi hermana me lo cepillaba todas las noches.

He would have died defending his family.

Men always failed Maman in the end. They forever fell disastrously short of whatever ideal she held them up to. What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits and the flinging of cooking utensils and collapse. High drama. Maman was incapable of either starting or ending a relationship without excess.

It's a funny thing Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

Pasarele pe carare/Ce se dau in scaldatoare./Iaca vine si-un craiete/Ca sa bea si el cu ele,/Dar sa vezi ce zarva mare,/Se scufunda si dispare.

Hanya ada aku dan Homaira melawan seluruh dunia. Dan aku memberitahumu Amir jan. Pada akhirnya, dunia akan selalu menang. Begitulah dunia berjalan.