Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which old Pashto songs were sometimes played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence.

Khaled Hosseini
Some Similar Quotes
  1. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. - Unknown

  2. It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. - Audrey Niffenegger

  3. It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing. - Audrey Niffenegger

  4. Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. - Roy T. Bennett

  5. One day spent with someone you love can change everything. - Mitch Albom

More Quotes By Khaled Hosseini
  1. I will follow you to the ends of the world.

  2. The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

  3. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them...

  4. But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

  5. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

Related Topics