Quotes from bookThe Kite Runner
The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose closest friend is Hassan. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet military intervention, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.
“You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Variant: The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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“There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
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“Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?”
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Variant: It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“But even when he wasn't around, he was.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
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“A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Variant: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Original: (99) Rahim Khan
Variant: It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
