Quotes from Khaled Hosseini

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into the humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills

Una storia è come un treno in corsa: in qualunque punto sali a bordo, prima o poi arrivi a destinazione.

Too many young Afghan men are dying this way.

Perkataan Hassan ini membuatku bersedih. Aku bersedih untuk jati diri Hassan, dan untuk tempatnya tinggal. Untuk kepasrahannya menerima kenyataan bahwa dia akan menua di pondok tanah liat di halaman, seperti yang terjadi pada ayahnya.

You have death certificates? Death certificates? This is Afghanistan we're talking about. Most people there don't have birth certificates.

When she spoke, he rested his elbows on the table and leaned in a bit toward her, listening with great interest, both smiling and frowning, never lifting his eyes from her. It's a show, Pari told herself, he's only pretending. A polished act, something he trotted out for women, something he had chosen to do now on the spur of the moment, to toy with her awhile and amuse himself at her expense.

can't help but see the wariness, the effort, the impatience. I can't help but see two people together out of a sense of genetic duty, doomed already to bewilder and disappoint each other, each honor-bound to defy the other.

It's a funny thing, Markos, 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.

For years, he had eaten without looking up, without speaking, his silence condemning, as though some judgment were being passed, then broken only by an accusatory grunt, a disapproving cluck of his tongue, a one-word command for more bread, more water.

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.

Potevo solo concludere che per alcune persone, in particolare per le donne, il matrimonio, anche infelice come questo, può costituire una fuga da un'infelicità ancora più grande.

Regarding Titanic) Sometimes Zalmai would saunter in and watch this game. What did he get to be, he asked. You can be the iceberg, said Aziza.

Kata Ayah, mimpi selalu punya arti.

Later, after Rasheed had dropped them off and taken a bus to work, Laila watched Aziza wave good-bye and scuff along the wall in the orphanage back lot. She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

Dicono: trovati uno scopo nella vita e perseguilo. Ma talvolta è solo dopo aver vissuto che si riconosce che la vita aveva uno scopo, e probabilmente uno scopo architettato dal caso.

Biarkan aku meringankan bebanmu: Tak ada satu pun dalam kenanganmu tentang Kabul yang bertahan. Yang terbaik adalah melupakan semuanya.

E, no final das contas, a pergunta que acabava sempre se impondo era: como é que eu, entre todas as pessoas, poderia punir alguém pelo seu passado?

I remembered how, as a boy, I would stew over all the things Mama wouldn't do, things other mothers did. Hold my hand when we walked. Sit me up on her lap, read bedtime stories, kiss my face good night. Those things were true enough. But, all those years, I'd been blind to a greater truth, which lay unacknowledged and unappreciated, buried deep beneath my grievances. It was this: that my mother would never leave me.

When spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time.

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

El único enemigo al que un afgano no puede derrotar es a sí mismo.

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

Baginya, kata-kata yang tertulis di halaman buku hanyalah serangkaian kode acak, tidak terpecahkan, misterius.

But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.