Khaled Hosseini

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.

— Khaled Hosseini

… 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.

— Khaled Hosseini

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

— Khaled Hosseini

I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

— Khaled Hosseini