“It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There is a way to be good again For you, a thousand times over Not a word passes between us, not because… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The truth was no. The lie was yes. I settled for something in between. "I don't know.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“the thing about people who mean everything they say is that they think everyone else does too.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mamà believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I suspect the truth is we are waiting, all of us, against unsurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
