Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

I miss my mother very, very much.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

What I said was I’ll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was that I meant what I said and it’s funny how all those things I could have said flooded my head after we said goodbye and I should have told you I’d be willing to hold you until my flesh crumbles into bone because I’m willing to die alone but god knows I don’t want to live that way.

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I‟ve never removed my ring. In all these years I‟ve never felt the desire to do so.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.