Ishwar Das > Ishwar's Quotes

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“some stories don't need telling”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Sad stories make good books”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But 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 Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The finger cut, to save the hand.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But then it passed, as all things do.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“People learned to live with the
most unimaginable things.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Zindagi migzara (life goes on)”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed