I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about… — 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