“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
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother's… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Father's world was unsparing. Nothing good came free, even love. You paid for all things, and if you were poor, suffering was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you… — 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
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I… — 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
“Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. ” — khaled hosseini Copy Share Image
“Here is what I do on the first day of snowfall every year: I step out of the house early in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I dare, I dare allow myself the hope that, after you read this, you will be more charitable to me than I… — 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
“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thou didst it… — 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
Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what… — 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
“Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one...Mariam wished she's been a better daughter to Nana. She wished… — 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
The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For… — 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
