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Khaled Hosseini Quotes: 23

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
The Kite Runner
For you, a thousand times over
The Kite Runner
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
And the Mountains Echoed
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
The Kite Runner
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
The Kite Runner
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
There is a way to be good again...
The Kite Runner
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
The Kite Runner
I will follow you to the ends of the world.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir
The Kite Runner
In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
The Kite Runner
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
The Kite Runner
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
The Kite Runner
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.
The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film
She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.
At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , "he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.
The Kite Runner