Want Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

— Khaled Hosseini

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

— Khaled Hosseini

“It’s a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what…

— Khaled Hosseini

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

— Khaled Hosseini

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became…

— Khaled Hosseini

Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting…

— Khaled Hosseini

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this…

— Khaled Hosseini

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I…

— Khaled Hosseini

I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is…

— Khaled Hosseini

The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly…

— Khaled Hosseini

President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his…

— Khaled Hosseini

Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all…

— Khaled Hosseini

Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need…

— Khaled Hosseini

I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a…

— Khaled Hosseini

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness…

— Khaled Hosseini