913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

What I have in ample supply here is children who’ve lost their childhood. But the tragedy is that these are the lucky ones.

Takes a donkey to know a donkey.

Blood is a powerful thing.

Mariam longed to place a ruler on a page and draw important-looking lines.

Don’t be afraid to tell the truth. It’s better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Because you, you are precious cargo, Marwan, the most precious there ever was. I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah.

That there was in her life the absence of something, or someone, fundamental to her own existence. Sometimes it was vague, like a message sent across shadowy byways and vast distances, a weak signal on a radio dial, remote, warbled. Other times it felt so clear, this absence, so intimately close it made her heart lurch.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. – Amir.