913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

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

Give sustenance, Allah.Give sustenance to me.

I wondered how and when I'd become capable of causing this kind of pain.

Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. 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.

Никога нямаше да остави такава следа в сърцето на мами, каквато бяха оставили нейните братята, защото то беше като белезникав крайбрежен пясък, от който неспирно връхлитащите вълни на печал щяха да отмият стъпките на Лайла.

He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.

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

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

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.