Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

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

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.

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

J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.

She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

You can not stop you from being who you are.

For you, a thousand times over

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.

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

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

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.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.