Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her. — 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
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Marriage can wait. Education cannot...Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.” — 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
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 was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride,… — 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… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a… — 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
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice… — 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