I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld… — 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 grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting… — 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
I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the… — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make… — 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
She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 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
![“The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/66f/khaled-hosseini-251_artistic_the-images-of-the-kite-runner-grafic-wer_745989.jpg)
![“It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d5/khaled-hosseini-251_book_it-s-hard-when-you-make-a-film-from-a-bo_401731.jpg)
![“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8b/khaled-hosseini-251_black_the-problem-of-course-was-that-he-saw-th_2457970.jpg)
