Quotes from Khaled Hosseini

ya no pensó en lamentarse, sino que se sintió invadida por una sensación de paz completa. Recordó las circunstancias de su nacimiento, como hija harami de una vulgar aldeana... Sin embargo abandonaba este mundo como una mujer que había amado y había sido correspondida. Lo abandonaba como amiga, compañera y protectora. Como madre... era el fin legitimo para una vida de origen ilegitimo...

Laila sat on the edge of the stream, dipping her feet into the cool water. Overhead, mosquitos hummed and cottonwood seeds danced. A dragonfly whirred nearby, Laila watched its wings catch glints of sunlight as it buzzed from one blade of grass to another. They flashed purple, then green, orange... Laila thought again about Babi's little dream. *Somewhere near the sea*.

fizzy orange Fanta

The moment is brief, barely enough for a flutter of the pulse but long enough for her illusory self to catch up with the reality of the woman gazing back from the shopwindow. It is a little devastating. This is what aging is, she thinks

everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you've already forgotten by the time you wake up.

Most of our neighbors in Fremont were bus drivers, policemen, gas station attendants, and unwed mothers collecting welfare, exactly the sort of blue-collar people who would soon suffocate under the pillow Reganomics pressed to their faces.

Me devolvieron a la celda sin que hubiese parado de reír. Seguí riendo y riendo porque de pronto supe que aquello había sido un mensaje de Dios: Él estaba de mi lado. Por algún motivo quería que yo siguiese con vida.

the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn't.

I knew it was better to be miserable than rude.

BUT WHEN THE time for good-byes came, the scene erupted precisely as Laila had dreaded. Aziza panicked.

maybe, just maybe, I would finally be pardoned for killing my mother.

Pari has not told the children about the suicide. They may learn one day, probably will. But they wouldn't learn it from her. She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be.

But Mariam's grief wasn't aimless or unspecific. Mariam grieved for this baby, this particular child, who had made her so happy for a while. Some days

That must be our man," Farid said. The tall Talib with the black

This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him, not the white masjid with its bright diamond lights and towering minarets.

She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away.

Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points noth, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman.

?tiu acum c? unii oameni simt nefericirea în acelaÈ™i mod în care alÈ›ii iubesc: în tain?, intens È™i f?r? posibilitatea vreunui remediu.

It wasn't so much the whistling [of the rockets] itself, Laila thought later, but the seconds between the start of it and the impact. The brief and interminable time of feeling suspended. The not knowing. The waiting. Like a defendant about to hear the verdict.

for you a thousand times over

Esta en la risa de los pequeños, en los versos que recita Aziza y en las oraciones que musita cuando se inclina hacia occidente.Pero, sobre todo, se halla en el corazón de Laila, donde brilla con el esplendor de mil soles.

entre las personas que se habían criado del mismo pecho existían unos lazos de hermandad que ni el tiempo podía romper.

Each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up in the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.

Spune-i secretul t?u vântului, dar nu te-ntoarce împotriva lui fiindc? le-a spus copacilor.