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
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the… — 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
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“It’s a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of… — 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
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — 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
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