Quotes by Amir Quiet 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 Hosseini amir buttons silence It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Khaled Hosseini amir peeking past A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything. Khaled Hosseini amir men boys There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir Khaled Hosseini amir brotherhood people