I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing! Khaled Hosseini More Quotes by Khaled Hosseini More Quotes From Khaled Hosseini A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated. Khaled Hosseini splendidchancethousand After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Khaled Hosseini hindi-moviehindilife-is Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words. Khaled Hosseini nameswinterthinking 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. Khaled Hosseini cuttingdrinkingair I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. Khaled Hosseini oddsinspiringlife I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. Khaled Hosseini bookpeoplerooms I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me. Khaled Hosseini meanyearsthinking Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. Khaled Hosseini kabulsquarestragedy Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila. Khaled Hosseini valleysgenerationstwo And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. Khaled Hosseini matterwinning Sad stories make good books Khaled Hosseini good-bookstoriesbook The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. Khaled Hosseini romancewritingthinking That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. Khaled Hosseini terrorchildrenfall In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst. Khaled Hosseini parentplaychildren At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken. Khaled Hosseini horizonchoicesdoe i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. Khaled Hosseini snakesgiving-upwho-i-am All good things in life are fragile and easily lost Khaled Hosseini things-in-lifegood-thingslost At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her . She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones . Khaled Hosseini tiredheartgoodbye The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. Khaled Hosseini citieswaitingpeople There is a way to be good again. Khaled Hosseini be-goodway
