913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

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

The finger cut, to save the hand.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

Can I ask what you’re reading?“... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. “Have you read it?” She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. “It’s a sad story.” “Sad stories make good books,” She said. “They do.

She had this laugh. I swear it’s why I married her, Laila, for that laugh! It bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.

But I’ll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn’t tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.