913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

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...

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.

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

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.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

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

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