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“There is a way to be good again.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

(2) - Rahim Khan
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

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

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

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

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Baba (58)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

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

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

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

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

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

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“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.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

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

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Variant: Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“It's a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

361
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“she is theof my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“You changed the subject."
"From what?"
"The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
"You know."
"Know what?"
"That I only have eyes for you.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed (2013)