Khaled Hosseini Quotes

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.

Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

"I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

"Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Life is a train, get on board.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.