Said Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

— Khaled Hosseini

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

— Khaled Hosseini

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

— Khaled Hosseini

I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the…

— Khaled Hosseini

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his…

— Khaled Hosseini

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a…

— Khaled Hosseini

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But…

— Khaled Hosseini

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he…

— Khaled Hosseini

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside.…

— Khaled Hosseini

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became…

— Khaled Hosseini

For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to…

— Khaled Hosseini

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes…

— Khaled Hosseini

She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the…

— Khaled Hosseini

Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She…

— Khaled Hosseini