913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.

What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

‎Laila was shocked at how easily she'd come unhinged, but, the truth was, part of her had liked it, had liked how it felt to scream at Mariam, to curse her, to have a target at which to focus all her simmering anger, her grief.

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

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor

It wasn't so much the whistling [of the rockets] itself, Laila thought later, but the seconds between the start of it and the impact. The brief and interminable time of feeling suspended. The not knowing. The waiting. Like a defendant about to hear the verdict.

And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.