Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
Khaled Hosseini
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Children
Asleep
Terror
Deal
Deals
Fall
More quotes by Khaled Hosseini
I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].
Khaled Hosseini
You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.
Khaled Hosseini
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
Khaled Hosseini
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
Khaled Hosseini
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
Khaled Hosseini
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
Khaled Hosseini
Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
Khaled Hosseini
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
Khaled Hosseini
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.
Khaled Hosseini
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
Khaled Hosseini
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
Khaled Hosseini
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.
Khaled Hosseini
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Khaled Hosseini
You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.
Khaled Hosseini
You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you.
Khaled Hosseini
I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty
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