A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it. Khaled Hosseini More Quotes by Khaled Hosseini More Quotes From Khaled Hosseini I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but 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. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years. Khaled Hosseini wall winter past I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it’s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it’s going to work. It’s astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks. Khaled Hosseini self two years As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling. Khaled Hosseini stories knows needs hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon. Khaled Hosseini sky blue fall Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions. Khaled Hosseini vacuums our-actions long She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. Khaled Hosseini stupidity odds worry He 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 Hosseini keys home doors 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 rigor choices kind I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into. Khaled Hosseini pool legs years But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. Khaled Hosseini hurt inspirational life My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow. Khaled Hosseini tanks rolling would-be A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything. Khaled Hosseini amir men boys You can not stop you from being who you are. Khaled Hosseini can-not who-you-are Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. Khaled Hosseini sad sorrow trials Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. Khaled Hosseini color book children War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. Khaled Hosseini baba demand war There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. Khaled Hosseini sin life lying And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good. Khaled Hosseini real believe father When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life. Khaled Hosseini math war kids Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. Khaled Hosseini details stealing time
