Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out… — 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
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. — 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
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you… — 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
