“Alas, Abdullah and Pari, Baba Ayub’s days of happiness came to an end.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Happiness like this is frightening....they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“They would make new lives for themselves—peaceful, solitary lives—and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the… — 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
![“Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes…” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b2/khaled-hosseini-251_ask-me_was-there-happiness-at-the-end-of-the-mo_375102.jpg)
