Quotes by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Explore a curated collection of 52 quotes by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the bree — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
I welcome you to my home as my son, as the husband of my daughter who is the noor of my eye. Your pain will be our pain, — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never l — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does. — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of inters — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child. — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, pac — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Come. There is a way to be good again... — 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. F — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was m — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above. — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who foun — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does no — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on lif — 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 st — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
... there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin! — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again. — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner