Khaled Hosseini Quotes, Thoughts and images

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

For you, a thousand times over

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

But then it passed, as all things do.

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

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

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

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

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

You can not stop you from being who you are.

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

There is a way to be good again.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.