Affliction Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.”

— Khaled Hosseini

The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would…

— Immortal Technique

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“At a dinner party in north London, I listened to friends bragging about buying Porsches with their bonuses and sending out from their offices…

— Christina Lamb

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

— Khaled Hosseini

“The best weapon the Afghan people have against the Taliban or any other terrible power that may choose to put itself in Afghanistan is…

— Andrea Busfield

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

— Katharine Anthony

A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a…

— Terry Hayes

“Education is the key to Afghanistan's successful future, Fawad, because it fights ignorance and intolerance and brings the blessing of opportunity. When a man…

— Andrea Busfield

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind…

— Asne Seierstad

The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not…

— Larry Heinemann