Quotes from Khaled Hosseini

An Afghan who is afraid of dying is an Afghan who is already dead.

It was Homaira and me against the world. And I'll tell you this, Amir jan: In the end, the world always wins. that's just the way of things.

Aku sering memuja Baba begitu rupa, dengan intensitas mendekati pemujaanku kepada Tuhan. Tapi saat itu, aku berharap aku bisa menoreh pembuluh nadiku dan mengeluarkan seluruh darah terkutuk Baba dari dalam tubuhku.

Perhaps, they reasoned, the poor, stringent lives

The bird's nest self-disassembles, the twigs snapping loose one by one, flying out of the kolba end over end. An invisible eraser wipes the Russian graffiti off the wall.

In cativa ani, aceasta fetita va fi o femeie care nu va cere niciodata prea mult de la viata, care nu va impovara niciodata pe nimeni, care nu se va plange niciodata de faptul ca are si ea regrete, dezamagiri, vise care i-au fost calcalte in picioare. O femeie care va fi ca o piatra de rau, indurandu-le pe toate fara sa se planga; taria ei nu va fi macinata, ci slefuita de tumultul care va trece peste ea.

Time makes us forget.

For me, America was a place to bury my memories. For Baba, a place to mourn his.

Sad stories make good books," she said.

They say, find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose.

There is a way to be good again

I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself.

Good-bye, Mariam." And, with that, unaware that she is weeping

But I think a big part of the reason I didn't care about Soraya's past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret.

Because when the spring comes it melts the snow one flake at a time...

The Chinese say its better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

It was you Nabi, she said in my ear. It was always you. Didn't you know?

Remember Amir agha. There's no monster, just a beautiful day

Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Yes," I said. "I'd miss you, a lot, and you know that. But you can't pass up a private school education. You'd go to university afterward. You could become a researcher, a scientist, a professor, an inventor. Isn't that what you want? You're the smartest person I know. You could be anything you want." I broke off. "No, Markos," Thalia said heavily. "No I couldn't.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. - Nabi

And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last.

stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. "For you a thousand times over!" he said. Then

People learned to live wifh the most unimaginable things. As would he. This was his life. This was his mother. This was his father. And this was him, even if he hadn't always known it.