Khaled Hosseini citations

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“c'est une erreur d'affirmer qu'on peut enterrer le passé, il s'accroche tant et si bien qu'il remonte toujours à la surface.”

“La beauté est un don du ciel énorme, immérité, accordé de manière aléatoire et stupide.”

“J'ai appris que le monde ne voit pas ce qu'il y a en vous, qu'il se moque complètement des espoirs, des rêves, des chagrins qui reposent cachés sous votre peau et vos os. C'est aussi simple que ça. Mes patients le savent, eux. Il constataient qu'une grande partie de ce qu'ils étaient, de ce qu'ils seraient ou de ce qu'ils pourraient être dépendait de la symétrie de leur ossature, de l'espace entre leurs yeux, de la longueur de leur menton, de leur nez, du fait qu'ils aient ou non un angle naso-frontal idéal ou pas.”

“Mais la bataille qui se livrait en lui se lisait sur son visage. Et sa peur aussi. Pas seulement celle qu'il éprouvait pour moi et ce qui risquait de m'arriver à 4500 kilomètres de chez nous. Mais aussi la peur qu'il avait de moi. Sa peur de me perdre. Sa peur devant mon absence, de réduire en pièces son coeur mis à nu et vulnérable si je le décidais, comme un doberman déchiquetant un chaton.”

“A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”

“She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.”

“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”

“Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.”
“Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.”

“you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.”

“Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.”

“That was a long time ago, but 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.”

“It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.”

“And I wrote to you, Laila. Volumes.”

“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?”