It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins… — 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
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But for a moment, standing there with Tariq in the sunlight, it was as though those years had never happened. Her parents… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I… — 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
