Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

You want to know what happened? YOU happened Rush. That's what happened.

You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?" I didn't do anything" Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot" -Chloe & Derek-

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

Vickie... you got some 'splaining to do!

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

Ignorance is not innocence.

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

you wanted saving didn't you?

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

People should always know better.

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.