“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
More from Khaled Hosseini on Relationships
“The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.”
“Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”
Others on Relationships
H. L. Mencken
5 quotes“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”
Marlene Dietrich
5 quotes“A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.”
Richelle Mead
5 quotes“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
Lisa Kleypas
5 quotes“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”
Sarah Dessen
5 quotes“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”
Christopher Hitchens
4 quotes“To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
4 quotes“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
Balzac
4 quotes“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
Alexandre Dumas
4 quotes“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendshi...”
Joyce Brothers
4 quotes“Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”
George Washington
4 quotes“True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled t...”