Inspirational Quotes by Khaled Hosseini — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

“Afghans like to say: Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab [success], nah-kam [failure], crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slot, dusty caravan of kochis [nomads].”

“there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.”

“At times, he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words. But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the Arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue. He said they comforted him, eased his heart. "They'll comfort you to . Mariam jo," he said. "You can summon then in your time of your need, and they won't fail you. God's words will never betray you, my girl.”

“She remembered a verse from the Koran that Mullah Faizullah had taught her: And Allah is the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose... She laid down her prayer rug and did name. When she was done, she cupped her hands before her face and asked God not to let all this good fortune slip away from her.”

“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.”

“Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. She wished she could see Laila again, wished to hear the clangor of her laugh, to sit with her once more for a pot of chai and leftover halwa under a starlit sky. She mourned that she would never see Aziza grow up, would not see the beautiful young woman that she would one day become, would not get to paint her hands with henna and toss noqul candy at her wedding. She would never play with Aziza's children. She would have liked that very much , to be old and play with Aziza's children.”

“I said to you,”

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”

“wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose”

“On a high mountain I stood,”

“If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.”

“Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.”

“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.”

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”