913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Zendagi Migzara” – Life goes on!

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had.