Khaled Hosseini: Trending quotes (page 9)

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

“You say their stories, it is gift they give you.”

“Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.”

“Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.”

“about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.”

“It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”

“these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.”

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

“At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.”

“Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time”

“Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.”

“But even when he wasn't around, he was.”

“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.”

“How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!”

“It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.”

“People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.”

“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 in making you.”

“No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.”

“Tariq: Who's going to tell her? You?”