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Khaled Hosseini QUOTES

1 " I will follow you to the ends of the world. "

― Khaled Hosseini , A Thousand Splendid Suns

2 " 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. "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

3 " 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. "

― Khaled Hosseini , A Thousand Splendid Suns

4 " But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. "

― Khaled Hosseini

5 " It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime... "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

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

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

7 " People say that eyes are windows to the soul. "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

8 " 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 "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

9 " In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things. "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

10 " 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. "

― Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini QUOTES

11 " There is a way to be good again... "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

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

― Khaled Hosseini , A Thousand Splendid Suns

13 " Sad stories make good books "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

14 " Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва. "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

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

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

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

― Khaled Hosseini

17 " 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. "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

18 " 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. "

― Khaled Hosseini , A Thousand Splendid Suns

19 " Zendagi Migzara "

― Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

20 " there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is. "

― Khaled Hosseini