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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“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.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“some stories don't need telling”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. 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. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become. ”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“مخطئون فيما قالوه عن الماضي ، لقد تعلمت كيف أدفنه ، إلا أنه دائماً يجد طريق عودته”
― خالد حسيني, عداء الطائرة الورقية

“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“لأجلك ألف مرةٍ أُخرى”
― خالد حسيني, عداء الطائرة الورقية

“He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“ليس هناك فعل أشنع من السرقة،رجل يأخذ ماليس له،قدتكون حياة أو قطعة خبز ،ابصق على هكذا رجل ،واذا التقيت بمثله مرة فليساعده الله ،”
― خالد حسيني, عداء الطائرة الورقية

“Zindagi migzara (life goes on)”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“ان ما يحدث في أيام قليلة وأحيانا يوم واحد حتي, يستطيع تغيير اتجاه المرء كل حياته.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“ناراحت شدن از یک حقیقت بهتر از تسکین یافتن با یک دروغ است”
― خالد حسینی, The Kite Runner

“There is a way to be good again

For you, a thousand times over

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

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

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

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner