“The moment is brief, barely enough for a flutter of the pulse but long enough for her illusory self to catch up… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“For you, a thousand times over” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There is a way to be good again For you, a thousand times over Not a word passes between us, not because… — 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 feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But they were wasting their time. Because Hassan stood with his arms wide open, smiling, waiting for the kite. And may God—if… — 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
“Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on… — 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
“stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. “For you a thousand times over!” he said. Then” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you’re going to sleep, the ones… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“At the time, I must have been in my late twenties, a young man at the prime of his desires for a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a moan - to salvage from perishing, to preserve. But time… — 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
“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