“…and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting…” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“For a time, I was quite literally at loss as to what to do with myself. For more than half a century… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. — 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
