Khaled Hosseini World Quotations

In 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.

Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.