Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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 HosseiniThere was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
Khaled HosseiniNow, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
Khaled HosseiniNever mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.
Khaled Hosseini