“Life is neither hard nor easy, life is life. Understanding this will help you endure every life situation, for life is neither hard nor easy, life is simply life.”
“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. - Nabi”
Source: The Complete Khalid Hosseini
“Our world is changing. I don't know what's going to happen today, or tomorrow or the day after that, but whatever it is, Camille, I want to go through it with you.”
Source: All That Glitters
“أنْ تهربَ من الظلم إلى الجنون هو غايةُ العقل، و أن ترميَ بنفسك في التهلكة لتوقفَ عجلة الفقر عن الدوران هو غايةُ الحكمة”
Source: عودة إلى بغداد: قصة كل مغترب عن وطنه ظلّ يحلم بالعودة و كل مغترب داخل وطنه ظلّ يحلم بالرحيل
“I write until my pen bleeds with words that hurt. Do not cry!. My pen is a lethal medicine that killed a few and cured many.”
“The cats are murdering sleep, the wall rumbling with their engine purrs -prut prut prut as they snore their way to oblivion.”
Source: Human Croquet
“I myself am usually to be found lying on the bed imitating the dead Chatterton, killing time by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds i´ve discovered so far).”
Source: Human Croquet
“الشَّمعة صغيرةٌ يا إلهي، الدّهاليز كبيرةٌ يا إلهي، لكنّ النُّور قَوِي.”
Source: الشمعة والدهاليز
“هَلْ يَكتبُ تاريخَ الأمم أصحابُ القرار من قادتِها البارزين، أَمْ يَصنعُهُ في الأوقات العصيبة جنودٌ مجهولون تتجاهل ذاكرتُه الجاحدة حتى أسماءهم؟”
Source: عودة إلى بغداد: قصة كل مغترب عن وطنه ظلّ يحلم بالعودة و كل مغترب داخل وطنه ظلّ يحلم بالرحيل
“Now I was free to do as I wished, but I found the freedom illusory, for what I wished for the most had been taken from me. -Nabi”
Source: The Complete Khalid Hosseini