Years Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

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

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt…

— Khaled Hosseini

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

— Khaled Hosseini

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t…

— Khaled Hosseini

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For…

— Khaled Hosseini

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we…

— Khaled Hosseini

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan…

— Khaled Hosseini

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does…

— Khaled Hosseini

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the…

— Khaled Hosseini

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated…

— Khaled Hosseini

I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that…

— Khaled Hosseini

I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

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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

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I…

— Khaled Hosseini

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming…

— Khaled Hosseini

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about…

— Khaled Hosseini

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream…

— Khaled Hosseini

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