Quote

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

Khaled Hosseini

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Solid
Breathing
Heavy
Air
Grew
Almost
Damp
Bricks

More quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Image
There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?
Khaled Hosseini
Image
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day
Khaled Hosseini
Image
[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
You say their stories, it is gift they give you.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
Khaled Hosseini
Image
It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children.
Khaled Hosseini