I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood. Khaled Hosseini More Quotes by Khaled Hosseini More Quotes From Khaled Hosseini After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Khaled Hosseini hindi-movie hindi life-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 names winter thinking 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 cutting drinking air I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. Khaled Hosseini odds inspiring life I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. Khaled Hosseini book people rooms 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 mean years thinking Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. Khaled Hosseini kabul squares tragedy 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 valleys generations two And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. Khaled Hosseini matter winning Sad stories make good books Khaled Hosseini good-book stories book 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 romance writing thinking That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. Khaled Hosseini terror children fall 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 parent play children 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 horizon choices doe i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. Khaled Hosseini snakes giving-up who-i-am All good things in life are fragile and easily lost Khaled Hosseini things-in-life good-things lost 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 tired heart goodbye 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 cities waiting people There is a way to be good again. Khaled Hosseini be-good way She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns. Khaled Hosseini flower heart two
