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 HOSSEINII 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 HOSSEINIBehind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINIShe was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
KHALED HOSSEINIAnd suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
KHALED HOSSEINIEveryone 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 HOSSEINIThere is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
KHALED HOSSEINILike a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
KHALED HOSSEINIBut 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 HOSSEINIWriting fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
KHALED HOSSEINIBeauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
KHALED HOSSEINIIt’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
KHALED HOSSEINIQuiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
KHALED HOSSEINIBut then it passed, as all things do.
KHALED HOSSEINII’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
KHALED HOSSEINIHe said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
KHALED HOSSEINIBut time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
KHALED HOSSEINI