Quotes from Khaled Hosseini

Menetapkan harga sewa yang mencekik leher untuk sebuah rumah pantai di Hawaii adalah hal lain. Menetapkan harga yang sama tingginya untuk menghidupi anak-anakmu adalah hal yang berbeda.

Ben presto si sarebbe ritrovato adulto. E allora non ci sarebbe stato modo di tornare indietro, perché l'essere adulto era qualcosa di simile a ciò che suo padre una volta aveva detto a proposito dell'essere un eroe di guerra. Quando si diventa eroe, si muore eroe.

Too much beauty, it corrupts things.

Kata-katanya adalah hukum, dan jika seseorang membutuhkan sedikit pengetahuan hukum, maka pelindung buku-buku jari bajanya bisa menjadi alat mengajar yang tepat.

the only enemy an Afghan cannot defeat is himself.

America was different. America was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past. I could wade

That was the thing about kite flying : your mind drifted with the kite

Sempre più spesso mi sembra di aggirarmi senza meta, in attesa che qualcosa mi accada, qualcosa che cambierà tutto e verso cui tende tutta la mia vita.

In these letters, I see the unique ability fiction has to connect people, and I see how universal some human experiences are: shame, guilt, regret, friendship, love, forgiveness, atonement.

Then I understood: The brass ball was still stuck in his empty eye socket.

When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

Learn this once and learn it well, my daughter. Like a compass needle always points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.

What he yearned for was his old life. What

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

Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours.

daytime brief, gloomy, the sun rarely out, and then only to make a cameo appearance before it vanished. He remembered

Credono di vivere in nome di ciò che vogliono. Ma in realtà si fanno guidare da ciò di cui hanno paura, da quello che non vorrebbero assolutamente.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes. I

And the Mountains Echoed BY KHALED HOSSEINI

shade of a wall, listlessly fingering their prayer beads

He supposes he should be relieved. But part of him wishes for something else. Perhaps if she had grimaced at him, said something infantile, full of loathing and hate. An eruption of rancor. Perhaps that might have been better. Instead, a clean, diplomatic dismissal. And this note. Don't worry. You're not in it. An act of kindness. Perhaps, more accurately, an act of charity. He should be relieved. But it hurts. He feels the blow of it, like an ax to the head.

His little body convulsed in my arms with each sob.

Come sospetto, la verità è che, malgrado le difficoltà insormontabili, tutti noi aspettiamo sempre che ci succeda qualcosa di straordinario.

Behind every trial and every sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.