Khaled Hosseini Quotes

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.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

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

Gone.
Vanished.
Nothing left.
Nothing said.

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

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.