“Kabul is . . .” Idris searches for the right words. “A thousand tragedies per square mile.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted… — 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 looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I know what I said earlier, but Kabul isn’t that bad.” Mrs. Wahdati toyed with her necklace absently. She was looking out… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Kabul had become a city of ghosts for me. A city of harelipped ghosts. America was different. America was a river, roaring… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“In the passenger seat, Nahil is all questions. Was Kabul safe? How was the food? Did he [Idris] get sick? Did he… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I loved wintertime in Kabul. I loved it for the soft pattering of snow against my window at night, for the way… — 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… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly… — 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
![“I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd2/khaled-hosseini-251_amir_i-believe-fabio-celoni-s-work-vividly-br_92189.jpg)
![“In the passenger seat, Nahil is all questions. Was Kabul safe? How was the food? Did he [Idris] get sick? Did he take pictures and videos of everything? He does his best. He describes for her the shell-blasted schools, the squatters living in roofless buildings, the beggars, the mud, the fickle…” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e07/khaled-hosseini-251_passenger-seat_in-the-passenger-seat-nahil-is-all-quest_1379585.jpg)
![“The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e3/khaled-hosseini-251_administration_the-george-w-bush-administration-tripled_2968888.jpg)
