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

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. — Khaled Hosseini

Life is a train, get on board. — Khaled Hosseini

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

After everything he’d built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases. — Khaled Hosseini

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

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t. — Khaled Hosseini

Time can be a greedy thing–sometimes it steals the details for itself. — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price? — Khaled Hosseini

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

He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he’s wrong. War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. — Khaled Hosseini

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 — Khaled Hosseini

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ”For you a thousand times over!” he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. — Khaled Hosseini

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam. — Khaled Hosseini

I think he loved us equally, but differently. — Khaled Hosseini

Afghani people and Pakistani people, they are like brothers. Muslims have to help Muslims. — Khaled Hosseini

If America taught me anything, it’s that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts’ lemonade jar. — Khaled Hosseini

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under. — Khaled Hosseini

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated… — Khaled Hosseini

You changed the subject.’ ‘From what?’ ‘The empty–headed girls who think you’re sexy.’ ‘You know.’ ‘Know what?’ ‘That I only have eyes for you. — Khaled Hosseini

I will follow you to the ends of the world. — Khaled Hosseini

It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place. — Khaled Hosseini

There is a way to be good again… — Khaled Hosseini

Men are easy,’ he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. ‘A man’s plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand…well, God put a lot of thought into making you. — Khaled Hosseini

And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan. — Khaled Hosseini

And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini

A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. — Khaled Hosseini

And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last. — Khaled Hosseini

In the end, the world always wins. That’s just the way of things. — Khaled Hosseini

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. — Khaled Hosseini

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

All my life, I’d been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman. — Khaled Hosseini