Kite Runner Quotes

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I want to scream again, and I remember that last time I felt this way, riding with Baba in the tank of the fuel truck, buried in the dark with other refugees. I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my leg blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away. There will be no other reality tonight.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“He loathed Jimmy Carter, whom he called a “big-toothed cretin.” In 1980, when we were still in Kabul, the U.S. announced it would be boycotting the Olympic Games in Moscow. “Wah wah!” Baba exclaimed with disgust. “Brezhnev is massacring Afghans and all that peanut eater can say is I won’t come swim in your pool.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Üzerinden çok uzun zaman geçti; ama geçmiş için söylenenler yanlış. Ben onun nasıl gömüleceğini öğrendim. Her ne kadar geçmiş pençeleriyle kendine bir çıkış yolu açmayı becerse de.”
― 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 father. 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

“I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner