black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

Khaled Hosseini

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Change Improvement Internet Invention Joke Laughter Old War
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Black Decision Fear Hate Himself Live Love Person Problem See White World
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
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Easy Fragile Goodness Life Lost
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

Ability Feeling Ocean Ourselves Path Person Present Thinking True Universe Walk World
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINI

God Himself Reason Sorrow
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Boy Direction Enjoyment Friendship See Sun Treat
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
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

Choice Herself See Travel Walk Weakness
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Charm Deep Thinking Time Wisdom Yourself
A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Brave Courage Coward Man Stand Strength Voice
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Courage Loss Myself Strength
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
KHALED HOSSEINI

Company Difference Silence Talk Word
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Detail Greedy Theft Time
Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Fingers Man Oppression Woman
I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
KHALED HOSSEINI

Happiness Love Myself Time

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Khaled Hosseini Quotes