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Quotes from The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini

b. 1965 Afghanistan

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25 quotes

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

The Kite Runner (2003)

A man who who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

The Kite Runner (2003)

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

The Kite Runner (2003)

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)

Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.

The Kite Runner (2003)

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.

The Kite Runner (2003)

For you, a thousand times over.

The Kite Runner (2003)

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

The Kite Runner (2003)

I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.

The Kite Runner (2003)

But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.

The Kite Runner (2003)

That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

The Kite Runner (2003)

Is this about you and Hassan? I know there's something going on between you two, but whatever it is, you have to deal with it, not me. I'm staying out of it.

The Kite Runner (2003)

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

The Kite Runner (2003)

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.

The Kite Runner (2003)

But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.

The Kite Runner (2003)

Hassan's not going anywhere. He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!

The Kite Runner (2003)

It was Homaira and me against the world. ... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

The Kite Runner (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Khaled Hosseini (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.