Afghan Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“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

“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

“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

“it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

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

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

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

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

— Khaled Hosseini

“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