913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It’s the only way I know how to write.

How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being.

Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. ‘It wasn’t meant to be’, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.

When guilt leads to good.

The truth was no. The lie was yes. I settled for something in between. “I don’t know.

That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.

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.

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I’ve been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.