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27 Beautifully Insightful Khaled Hosseini Quotes That Will Sooth Your Soul

But it is important to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. 
Kirsten Corley
August 29, 2016
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback
Tagged: Truth, Lies, Honest And Truthful, Comfort
“Sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback
Tagged: Hope, Change, Life
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback
Tagged: Honesty, Thinking, Everyone
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: honestly, Lies, Truth
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Marriage, Education, Love, Dreams
“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Losing, Hurt Most, Gaining
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Waiting, wishing, Hoping, Patience
“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Stealing, Death, Murder
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: God Quotes, Faith, Belief
“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, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Fear, Living, Life, Afraid
“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Past, Regret, Mistakes, Running
“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Suffer, Goodness
“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Unhappiness, Love, Recourse
“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: morals, Honesty, Truth
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Teach, Life Experience, See And Feel
“The past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Wisdom, Love, Relationships
“And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Knowledge, Hope, Wisdom
“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.’”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Beautiful, Strength And Beauty, unfair
“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Sleep, Fear, Terror
“You can not stop you from being who you are.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Be You, Confidence, Self love
“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Love, Children, fair
“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Roots, Past, Regret, Unreal
“True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Redemption, Guilt, Good
“Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyielding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Love, Define Love, Loving, Relationships
“If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Dreams, Goals, Chasing
“Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Education, Women Rights, Knowledge Is Power
“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Reading Quotes, Writing, Literature Quotes