Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

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 cant love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

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.

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...

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

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

In the end, the world always wins. Thats just the way of things.

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.

There is a way to be good again...

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Sad stories make good books

Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

If theres a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.

She wished she could visit Mariams grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesnt matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

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