black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

Khaled Hosseini

I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Goodness Kindness Myself Old Person Regret Thinking
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Book Children Color Deep Parents Teaching Yourself
I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Happiness Love Myself Time
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Easy Fragile Goodness Life Lost
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Choice Freedom Kind Love Small Stay Yourself
You can not stop you from being who you are.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Be Yourself Stop
I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Bone Cruelty Dreams Hope Learning Mad Skin World
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Beginning Important Life Missing Person Reality Start Story Try Understand Yourself
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Deserve Goodness Happiness Life Myself
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Eyes Feeling Gratitude Happiness Hope Tears Trick Water
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Courage Loss Myself Strength
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Fiction Greatness Lying Truth Writing
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Freedom Goodness Love Money Poor Price Suffering Yourself
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Meaning People Talk Thinking Worth
It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Hurt Lose Place Wisdom
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 HOSSEINI

Empty Night Place Reality Rise Summer Tears Throat

At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Khaled Hosseini Quotes