Truth Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

“The truth was no. The lie was yes. I settled for something in between. "I don't know.”

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

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

“When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“the thing about people who mean everything they say is that they think everyone else does too.”

— Khaled Hosseini

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

— Khaled Hosseini

“I suspect the truth is we are waiting, all of us, against unsurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

“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

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

“She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence…

— Khaled Hosseini

“There is a way to be good again For you, a thousand times over Not a word passes between us, not because…

— Khaled Hosseini