I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
KHALED HOSSEINIBehind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
-
-
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
You can not stop you from being who you are.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
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 -
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
KHALED HOSSEINI