The best Quotes from The Kite Runner

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

There is only one sin, and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Afghan people are just so tired of war.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

Give them the right lie and they'll believe it.

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Sometimes, lies are more interesting than the truth.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

It's not lies that cut but the sharpness of the truth.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Lies are exactly what people tell to make life more bearable. To avoid pain and suffering and hurting people.

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Guzmán: "Because she supports me. Unconditionally."
Nadia: "That isn't love, it's devotion, like you would have for a God. People who love you tell you the truth."

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Ian Malcolm: "I told the truth."
Peter Ludlow: "Your version of it."
Ian Malcolm: "There are no versions of the truth."

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth!

I didn't realize how destructive the truth could be.

The truth is always there, whether we see it or not - whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.

When the truth offends me, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."