Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Explore a curated collection of 35 quotes by Khaled Hosseini. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. — Khaled Hosseini
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is n — Khaled Hosseini
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperat — Khaled Hosseini
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that thi — Khaled Hosseini
A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of th — Khaled Hosseini
For you, a thousand times over! — Khaled Hosseini
I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the — Khaled Hosseini
I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the — Khaled Hosseini
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. — Khaled Hosseini
She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That — Khaled Hosseini
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. — Khaled Hosseini
There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you — Khaled Hosseini
I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know — Khaled Hosseini
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream an — Khaled Hosseini
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, — Khaled Hosseini
I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing in the world — Khaled Hosseini
I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no — Khaled Hosseini
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 compani — Khaled Hosseini
Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is. — Khaled Hosseini