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 can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. M...”

“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. That's 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”

“Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptine...”

“She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke sile...”

“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it did not care a whit about the hopes and reams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as crue...”

“I welcome you to my home as my son, as the husband of my daughter who is the noor of my eye. Your pain will be our pain, your joy our joy. I hope that you will come to see your Khala and Jamila and...”

“Zendagi Migzara”

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“Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”

“Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.”