“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Honesty, Thinking, Everyone
“Sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Hope, Change, Life
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Lies, Honest And Truthful, Comfort
“And I'll tell you this, Amir Jan: In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Life, Destiny, Fate
“My whole life I had been 'Baba's son.' Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Life, Finding Yourself
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: honestly, Lies, Truth
“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Losing, Hurt Most, Gaining
“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: morals, Honesty, Truth
“And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Life, Guilt, Loyalty, Love
“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.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Life, Extremes
“Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Love, Define Love, Loving, Relationships
“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: Life, People, Bad People