913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

´You like big words? I´ll give you one: perspective. That´s what I´m doing here, Laila. Making sure you don´t lose perspective.´ What turned Laila´s stomach the rest of the night was that every word Rasheed had uttered, every last one, was true.

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

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

But for a moment, standing there with Tariq in the sunlight, it was as though those years had never happened. Her parents deaths, her marriage to Rasheed, the killings, the rockets, the Taliban, the beatings, the hunger, even her children, all of it seemed like a dream, a bizarre detour, a mere interlude between that last afternoon together and this moment.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.