Khaled Hosseini

The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are…

— Khaled Hosseini

“somewhere deep inside, her sister understood dimly that her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a…

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You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be…

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“And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as…

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Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

“11- His days in Shadbagh were numbered, like Shuja’s. He knew this now. There was nothing left for him here. He had…

— Khaled Hosseini

You can not stop you from being who you are.

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“She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all…

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Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an…

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“Remember Amir agha. "There's no monster, just a beautiful day,”

— Khaled Hosseini

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you,…

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“Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table's legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark…

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“Con el tiempo he descubierto que lo que dicen del pasado, que es posible enterrarlo, no es cierto. Por que el pasado…

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Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises.…

— Khaled Hosseini

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

“The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever…

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“Theft is the one unforgivable sin, the one common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life.…

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“she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”

— Khaled Hosseini

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by…

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

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

— Khaled Hosseini