Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the world for them.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.