Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Quotes
When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.
I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.
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
Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.
I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.
Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.
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.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
... there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.
Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.
On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.
That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.
Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.
Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.
I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
