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In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.

Khaled Hosseini
Running, Art, Memories
Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.117, Bloomsbury Publishing

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Khaled Hosseini
Memories, Past, Rivers
Marilyn Herbert, Khaled Hosseini (2006). “Book Club in a Box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel The Kite Runner”, p.51, Bookclub-in-a-Box

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

Khaled Hosseini
Memories, Past, Color
Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.107, A&C Black

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.

Khaled Hosseini
Country, Religious, Memories
"For Afghanistan With Love". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

Khaled Hosseini
Growing Up, Memories, Flying
"GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

Khaled Hosseini
Memories, War, Childhood
Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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