Laila, p. 395
Variant: Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“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 book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

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

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“For you, a thousand times over.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

(2) - Hassan, Amir
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

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

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

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

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Baba (115)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

“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 book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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 book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner