Khaled Hosseini Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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. A Thousand Splendid Suns

2. Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. The Kite Runner

3. I will follow you to the ends of the world. A Thousand Splendid Suns

4. I will use a flower petal for paper,And write you the sweetest letter,You are the sultan of my heart,Sultan of my heart. A Thousand Splendid Suns

5. She considers for aminute before saying, J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That issomething a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, Iwish I was not good to that person. You will never think that. For a moment, her face looksstricken. She is like a helpless schoolgirl. It would not have been so difficult, she says tiredly.I should have been more kind. I should have been more like you. And the Mountains Echoed

6. She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns. A Thousand Splendid Suns

7. 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. The Kite Runner

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

9. I said to you,"Hold my hand.Nothing bad will happen."These are only words.A father's tricks,It slays your father,your faith in him.Because all I can think tonight ishow deep the sea,and how vast, how indifferent.How powerless I am to protect you from it.All I can do is pray. Sea Prayer

10. In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all. A Thousand Splendid Suns

11. It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.

12. Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. The Kite Runner

13. Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва. The Kite Runner

14. დრო სიზმარივითაა, იქ წყდება, სადაც თვითონ მოესურვება. And the Mountains Echoed