Poetry Quote by Khaled Hosseini — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

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

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

“wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose”

“On a high mountain I stood,”

“She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”

“A fragment for my friend--”

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands”

“Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.”

“The master said”

“one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.”

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”