913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

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].

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

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

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic.

Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.