A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
Khaled Hosseini Quotes
b. 1965 Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965) is a physician and author of the best selling novel, The Kite Runner.
- Afghanistan
- Novelists
Also known as: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Kite Runner, The Kite Runner
46 quotes
A man who who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
The Kite Runner (2003)
It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
The Kite Runner (2003)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Regret...when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
The Kite Runner (2003)
How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?
The Kite Runner (2003)
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
The Kite Runner (2003)
There is a way to be good again.
The Kite Runner (2003)
The Kite Runner (2003)
The Kite Runner (2003)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
For you, a thousand times over.
The Kite Runner (2003)
The Kite Runner (2003)
Laila (at fourteen years): What would your mother say when she saw you smoke?
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
And the Mountains Echoed (2013)
Nana (to Mariam): When I'm gone, you'll have nothing in this world. You are nothing!
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.
The Kite Runner (2003)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Khaled Hosseini (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.