I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still… — 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
You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing! — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as… — 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
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve… — 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
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its… — 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
![“I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b63/khaled-hosseini-251_able_i-feel-like-we-americans-are-a-unique-na_1036909.jpg)
![“There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a1f/khaled-hosseini-251_book_there-is-an-energy-a-romance-in-writing_1384084.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)
