Khaled Hosseini: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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