Khaled Hosseini Quotes

"Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".

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

She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

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

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

كما إبرة البوصلة تشير إلى الشمال ،، فإن أصبع الرجل يجد دائماً امرأة ليتهمها ،، تذكري ذلك يا مريم !!

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

"For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms.