Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.

I can run free here. I can go back to being a kid.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

I will always dance in the street.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.

Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.

For people who don't love running, they don't understand - but I never feel like anyone is putting a gun to my head to go out for a run. I feel like a kid going out to play - that feeling of when you had a bike as a kid and you'd go out and just ride and be free and have fun.

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except that his pale skinny legs are visible, and his arms hug plastic bags. I can see the back of Lacey's legs beneath her dress, her calves tight in midstride. I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.