Life is a train, get on board. — Khaled Hosseini

After everything he’d built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases. — Khaled Hosseini

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. — Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be. — Khaled Hosseini

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). — Khaled Hosseini

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing! — Khaled Hosseini

I will follow you to the ends of the world. — Khaled Hosseini

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

There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world. — Khaled Hosseini

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight. — Khaled Hosseini

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. — Khaled Hosseini

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. — Khaled Hosseini

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. — Khaled Hosseini

I don’t outline at all; I don’t find it useful, and I don’t like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way. — Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them. — Khaled Hosseini

You say their stories, it is gift they give you. — Khaled Hosseini

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends. — Khaled Hosseini

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself. — Khaled Hosseini

I’m sorry,’ Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. — Khaled Hosseini

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. — Khaled Hosseini

Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually. — Khaled Hosseini

Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music. — Khaled Hosseini

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood. — Khaled Hosseini

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,’ she said, ‘then Hakim is your man. — Khaled Hosseini

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community. — Khaled Hosseini

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]. — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

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

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine. — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

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

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. — Khaled Hosseini

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me. — Khaled Hosseini

She would grab whatever she could–a look , a whisper , a moan–to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn’t , in the end , save it all . — Khaled Hosseini

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture. — Khaled Hosseini

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. — Khaled Hosseini

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem. — Khaled Hosseini

There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break.–Amir — Khaled Hosseini