913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya’s womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I’d feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And.

It’s wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don’t know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.

I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

It was like waking up one morning and finding that a wild animal has wandered into your house. No place felt safe to me.

I see you’ve confused what you’re learning in school with actual education.

For courage, there must be something at stake.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don’t they? Like a badge? I’m being genuine.