“They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to… — 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… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.… — 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
“she had hang up knowing that for the rest of her life it would slam into her at random moments, the guilt,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I had always pictured her living a tumultuous, wayward life, hard years of bad luck-fits and starts,collapse,regret-and ill advised, desperate love affairs.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate… — 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
“All my life, I [Pari] have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her. But… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Nothing like life, it questions with either no answers or messy ones.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“It was a spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like… — 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)
![“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)
![“All my life, I [Pari] have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent. I have been free to observe the glimmering world on the other side, to picture myself in it, if I like. But I have always been contained, hemmed in, by…” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd9/khaled-hosseini-251_day-by-day_all-my-life-i-pari-have-lived-like-an-aq_566184.jpg)
