He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“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 Image