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And the Mountains Echoed QUOTES

And the Mountains Echoed QUOTES

1 " He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

2 " In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

3 " I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

4 " you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

5 " He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

6 " She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

7 " I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

8 " I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

9 " Once, when I was little, I asked her if she’d cried when my father had fallen to his death.
At the funeral? I mean, the burial?
No, I did not.
Because you weren’t sad?
Because it was nobody’s business if I was. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

10 " 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 bare to lose. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

11 " i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

12 " I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned is that you dig a little and you find they're all the same, give or take. Some are more polished, granted. They may come with a little bit of charm-- Or a lot -- and that can fool you. But really they're all unhappy little boys sloshing around in their own rage. They feel wronged. They haven't been given their due. No one loved them enough. Of course they expect you to love them. They want to be held, rocked, reassured. But it's a mistake to give it to them. They can't accept it. They can't accept the very thing they're needing. They end up hating you for it. And it never ends because they can't hate you enough. It never ends-- the misery, the apologies, the promises, the reneging, the wretchedness of it all. My first husband was like that. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

13 " James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

14 " Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

15 " What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

16 " war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts of supposed heroes and villains, each new hero making one increasingly nostalgic for the old villain. The names changed, as did the faces, and I spit on them equally for all the petty feuds, the snipers, the land mines, bombing raids, the rockets, the looting and raping and killing. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

17 " He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

18 " Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

19 " She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

20 " Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head. "

― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed