“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
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream… — 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
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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.” — 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
“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
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
“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and… — 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 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
“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
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
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
All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. — 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
Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be… — 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
