Khaled Hosseini

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with…

— Khaled Hosseini

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make…

— Khaled Hosseini

“To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.”

— Khaled Hosseini

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”

— Khaled Hosseini

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Marriage can wait. Education cannot...Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. No chance.”

— 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

“...if culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, to all the rooms inside. Without it, he…

— 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

“At night, I served them dinner, and they each received the meal in pointed silence, gaze lowered to the platter of rice,…

— Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

— Khaled Hosseini

“I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will…

— Khaled Hosseini

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and…

— 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

“For you, a thousand times over - The Kite Runner”

— Khaled Hosseini

“And so it was that, about a week later, we crossed a strip of warm, black tarmac and I brought Hassan's son…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I remember how I would eye with envy all the kids in our neighborhood, in my school, who had a little brother…

— Khaled Hosseini

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home”

— Khaled Hosseini

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The suffering, the despair in this place, is like a wave. It rolls out of every bed, smashes against the moldy walls…

— Khaled Hosseini

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a…

— Khaled Hosseini