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
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 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 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
I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like… — 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
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream… — 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
When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years. — 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
Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting… — 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
![“there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive…” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9b5/khaled-hosseini-251_benevolent_there-is-a-god-there-always-has-been-i-s_621288.jpg)
