“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir Jan, when guilt leads to good.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“she had hang up knowing that for the rest of her life it would slam into her at random moments, the guilt,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I… — 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
“should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say… — 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
