Quotes About Hosseini

with a thug of a string, i'd cut loose my pain, my longing...

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out

It had struck her as comically officious then, hearing his full name uttered.

then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more.

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character

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