A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God. O Ali, Lion of God, King of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of… — 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
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his… — 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
All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman. — 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