Khaled Hosseini: Trending quotes (page 7)
Khaled Hosseini trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner (2003), Ch. 2
Context: Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words.Mine was Baba.His was Amir. My name.Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975—and all that followed—was already laid in those first words (11).
“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Variant: 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.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Context: 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.
“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great”
Source: The Kite Runner
“If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed