I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“This is what aging is...these random unkind moments that catch you when you least expect them.” — 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
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
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
“stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. “For you a thousand times over!” he said. Then” — 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
“That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“…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
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
“Thinking of the anguish of his final days and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done,… — 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
“But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging… — 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
