“People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Reveal, Truth, Eyes
“That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Regret, Good Person
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Trial, Sorrow, Reason, God
“There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life,’ Baba said. ‘You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you s…”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Theft, Fairness, Stealing
“A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: destination, Onboard
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Word, Mean What You Say
“Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Heartless, punishment
“I suspect the truth is we are waiting, all of us, against unsurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Waiting, Odds
“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.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Word, Mean What You Say
“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Goodness, Suffer
“Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Obstacles, Heroism
“You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Regret, Good Person
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Feel, Teach, Books, Life Lessons
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Guide, Truth
“There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: loyal, Love, bond
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Education, Women
“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: hurt, Truth, Lie
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Waiting, Hardships, Punish
“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: hurt, Good, Evil
“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Courage, Fear, Loss
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Love, Wisdom, Illusion, Hope
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Guide, Truth
“For you, a thousand times over.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Love, Loyalty, Friends, Friendship
“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: purpose, Life, Mind
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Waiting, Odds