913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.

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

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.

You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

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.

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.