Khaled Hosseini Quotes

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

some stories don't need telling

Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

J’aurais dû être plus gentille — I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

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.

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.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her

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