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The Kite Runner past Khaled Hosseini
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"It may exist unfair, merely what happens in a few days, sometimes even a unmarried twenty-four hour period, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"And that'due south the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does as well."
― 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

"information technology always hurts more to accept and lose than to not take in the first identify."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, just with hurting gathering its things, packing upwards, and slipping abroad unannounced in the heart of the night."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"In that location are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife'southward right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When y'all tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"It was only a grin, nothing more. Information technology didn't make everything all correct. It didn't brand ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny matter. A foliage in the wood, shaking in the wake of a startled bird'due south flight. Just I'll take it. With open arms. Considering when spring comes, information technology melts the snow one flake at a fourth dimension, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir"
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"She said, 'I'm and then afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness similar this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Not a word passes between us, not because we accept zero to say, but because nosotros don't accept to say annihilation"
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"People say that optics are windows to the soul."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes information technology steals the details for itself."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"It's incorrect what they say about the by, I've learned, about how you tin bury information technology. Because the past claws its way out."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Serenity is peace. Repose. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting information technology downward. All of information technology. - Amir"
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"That same nighttime, I wrote my first brusque story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who plant a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he plant ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. Every bit the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story concluded with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his dear wife'southward slain body in his arms."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise upwards like a cloud and float abroad, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am hither, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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

"there is just one sin, simply one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you impale a human, you lot steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a ather. When you lot tell a prevarication, you steal someone'southward right to the truth. When you crook, you lot steal the right to fairness... there is no human activity more wretched than stealing."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than than in times of peace." - Baba"
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"One time, when I was very lilliputian, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My tummy swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd only waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't take become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I attempt to remember what she said about the apples."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"In the terminate, the world always wins. That'south just the way of things."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"You've always been a tourist here. Y'all just didn't know it."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"I opened my oral fissure, about said something. Almost. The residuum of my life might accept turned out differently if I had. Just I didn't."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"I'k then afraid. Because I'm and then profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you lot."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: elementary, very few surprises. Y'all ladies, on the other mitt...well, God put a lot of idea into making you."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"The problem, of form, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was blackness and what was white. You can't beloved a person who lives that mode without fearing him too. Maybe even antisocial him a lilliputian."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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