Khaled Hosseini Quotes

But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

The finger cut, to save the hand.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.

Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

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

And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

Blood is a powerful thing

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir

There is a way to be good again...

Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.

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

Zendagi Migzara

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you.

For you, a thousand times over!

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor

Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "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 than in times of peace.

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.