“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“For a few unfortunate kids, winter did not spell the end of the school year. There were the so-called voluntary winter courses.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
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