"Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Khaled Hosseini quotes (page 17 of 18)
356 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful."
Read quote
3 likes
"My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to."
Read quote
3 likes
"I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time."
Read quote
3 likes
"I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure."
Read quote
3 likes
"I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader."
Read quote
3 likes
"A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through."
Read quote
3 likes
"For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture."
Read quote
3 likes
"Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history."
Read quote
3 likes
"It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names."
Read quote
3 likes
"If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school."
Read quote
3 likes
"The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"Blood is a powerful thing"
Read quote
3 likes
"Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor."
Read quote
3 likes
"I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great"
Read quote
3 likes
"If you were the poor, suffering was your currency."
Read quote
3 likes
"And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab."
Read quote
3 likes
"At least, it is encouraging to me that President [Barack] Obama has put Afghanistan front and center in this broader so-called War on terror, and that he is taking a different approach to Afghanistan."
Read quote
3 likes
"The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip."
Read quote
3 likes