“Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories.” — 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
He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and… — 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
“But in my quiet moments, in those long rides in the back of a bus or the bed of a truck, my… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.” — 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,… — 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
“…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
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
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
“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
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated… — 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
“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
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
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
“for the first time since we had crossed the border, I felt like I was back. After all these years, I was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. Laila bore… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became… — 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
“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
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever… — 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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“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
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
“Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
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