Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above."
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"Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above."
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 meant not to be."
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
"Come. There is a way to be good again..."
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, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
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
"Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres."
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
"it is a heart Breaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it."
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 lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him."
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, your joy our joy. I hope that you will come to see your Khala and Jamila and me as a second set of parents, and I pray for your and our lovely Soraya jan's happiness. you both have our blessings."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"Ask him where his shame is." They spoke. "He says this is war. There is no shame in war." "Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba"
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said. His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
"A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché."
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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