Khaled Hosseini Quotes

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.

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

There is a way to be good again.

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.

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

You can not stop you from being who you are.

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

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

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.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

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

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

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.

But then it passed, as all things do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

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

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

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

For you, a thousand times over

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