Khaled Hosseini Quotes - Page 2

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.

She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

On a high mountain I stood,
And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.
O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men,
Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.

A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.

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...

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could-a look, a whisper, a moan-to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.

Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

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 your never had in mind.

But time, it is like a charm. You never have as much as you think.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor