913 Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

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

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.