Quotes from Khaled Hosseini

It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.

Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor.

You know nothing of courage," said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. He

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.

Sai che il cratere prodotto da una bomba può diventare una piscina. Hai imparato che il sangue scuro è meno grave di quello chiaro.

I rolled him over so he faced me. He felt light as a dream. I placed a kiss on his dry, cracked lips. I put a pillow between his face and my chest and reached for the back of his head. I held him against me in a long, tight embrace.

But the most impressive thing about your story is that it has irony.

He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes.

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that?

It was 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 bear to loose. Faith that the world will not destroy you...

lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

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.

C'était toujours pareil avec les cerfs-volants. Vos pensées dérivent en même temps qu'eux.

It's a funny thing… 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.

Prošle sedmice Bibi jo donijela je vijest da Jalilove k?erke Saideh i Naheed trebaju krenuti u Mehrijinu djevoja?ku školu u Heratu. Otad su se misli o u?ionici i u?iteljima kovitlale u Mariaminoj glavi, slike sveski sa linijama, stupci brojeva i olovke što ostavljaju taman, debeo trag. Zamišljala je sebe u u?ionici sa drugim djevoj?icama njenih godina. Žudjela je za tim da stavi linijar na stranicu sveske, i vu?e crte koje izgledaju važno.

If you went from the Shar-e-Nau section to Kerteh-Parwan to buy a carpet, you risked getting shot by a sniper or getting blown up by a rocket—if you got past all the checkpoints, that was. You practically needed a visa to go from one neighborhood to the other. So people just stayed put, prayed the next rocket wouldn't hit their home.

Révèle ton secret au vent, mais ne lui reproche pas de le répéter aux arbres.

When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "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?

suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

Jangan pernah menjadikan wanita ini musuh, dalam persoalan apapun.

Father used to say it's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good." "Not

He pointed to an old man dressed in ragged clothes trudging down a dirt path, a large burlap pack filled with scrub grass tied to his back. "That's the real Afghanistan, Agha sahib. That's the Afghanistan I know. You? You've always been a tourist here, you just didn't know it.