All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.
Khaled HosseiniIt'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 HosseiniYou 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 HosseiniIn many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
Khaled HosseiniNever mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.
Khaled Hosseini