Top 15 Khaled Hosseini Quotes

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

For you, a thousand times over

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

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

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

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

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

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.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.