913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it’s story, it’s something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can’t get rid of, and I’ve got to see it through.

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

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything – that is how, it is between people who are each other’s first memories.

How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

It always hurts more to have and loose than not to have in first place.

The Chinese say it’s better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

At times, he didn’t understand the meaning of the Koran’s words. But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the Arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue. He said they comforted him, eased his heart. “They’ll comfort you to. Mariam jo,” he said. “You can summon then in your time of your need, and they won’t fail you. God’s words will never betray you, my girl.

I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.