quotes by Khaled Hosseini

"For you, a thousand times over"
— Khaled Hosseini

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini

"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"There is a way to be good again..."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

"'Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always'"
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

""children arent coloring books you dont get to fill them with your fav. colors""
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

""Men are easy," he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. "A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.""
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

""And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.""
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated..."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

"That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

"and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last."
— Khaled Hosseini

"I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.

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— Khaled Hosseini

"All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"Marriage can wait, education cannot."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

"Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)