“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
10 likes
Quote authors
Author detail
Khaled Hosseini
Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1976, when Hosseini was 11 years old, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there. They were unable to return to Afghanistan because of the Saur Revolution. They sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from Independence High School in San Jose in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1993. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He practiced medicine for over ten years, until a year and a half after the release of The Kite Runner. Hosseini is currently a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has been working to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan through the Khaled Hosseini Foundation. He lives in Northern California with his wife, Roya, and their two children (Harris and Farah).
Quotes
90 results
Showing 1-20 of 90
“For you, a thousand times over”
0 likes
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
2 likes
“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.”
0 likes
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
1 likes
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
“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...”
0 likes
“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 parch...”
“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
0 likes
“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. - Amir”
0 likes
“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
0 likes
“and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.”
0 likes
“I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for ye...”
“There is a way to be good again...”
3 likes
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
“Sad stories make good books”
2 likes
“Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.”
1 likes
“If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.”
0 likes