913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

The lucky ones, the ones who weren't here when the place was getting bombed to hell. We're not like these people. We shouldn't pretend we are. The stories these people have to tell, we're not entitled to them.

I have heard it said we are the uninvited.We are the unwelcome.We should take our misfortune elsewhere. But I hear your mother's voice,over the tide.and she whispers in my ear,"Oh, but if they saw, my darling.Even half of what you have.If only they saw.They would say kinder things, surely.

Bareh tu hazar dafa!

كنا جميعاً ننتظر ، ننتظر رغم ضآلة الإحتمالات ، ننتظر حدوث شيء استثنائي يقلب حياتنا.

اكتشفت أن الحرّية مجرد خدعة ، لأن أكثر مارغبت به وتمنّيته سلب منّي.

Prošle sedmice Bibi jo donijela je vijest da Jalilove kćerke Saideh i Naheed trebaju krenuti u Mehrijinu djevojačku školu u Heratu. Otad su se misli o učionici i učiteljima kovitlale u Mariaminoj glavi, slike sveski sa linijama, stupci brojeva i olovke što ostavljaju taman, debeo trag. Zamišljala je sebe u učionici sa drugim djevojčicama njenih godina. Žudjela je za tim da stavi linijar na stranicu sveske, i vuče crte koje izgledaju važno.

And, just like that, he had thrown at me his own little test. If I was going to toy with him and challenge his loyalty, then he would toy with me, test my integrity.

My dear Martin, in the long summer of childhood, when I was a boy the age you are now, your uncles and I spread our mattress on the roof of your grandfather’s farmhouse outside of Homs.

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.