Children Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

— Khaled Hosseini

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

— Khaled Hosseini

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds…

— Khaled Hosseini

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as…

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I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets…

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I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing…

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We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students…

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“She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident.…

— Khaled Hosseini

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be…

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I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still…

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“She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them…

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We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour,…

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“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill…

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“9- I watch the kids shooting marbles on sidewalks that melt into muddy gutters, the old women sitting in doorways, the street…

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“When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She hears the words childhood leukemia, or maybe he says lymphoma, and what's the difference anyway?…She is furious with herself for her…

— Khaled Hosseini

No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all…

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But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she…

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Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the…

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“When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother's…

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Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice…

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“I was an only, and often lonely, child. After they’d had me, my parents, who’d met back in Pakistan when they were…

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When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out…

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I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood.…

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It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to…

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When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Look at me, Mariam.' Reluctantly, Mariam did. Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle…

— Khaled Hosseini

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans,…

— Khaled Hosseini

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So…

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In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you…

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We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition,…

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“Theft is the one unforgivable sin, the one common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life.…

— Khaled Hosseini