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.
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Baba (58)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.”
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“about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.”
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“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Rahim Khan, Ch. 3
Variant: Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”
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“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”
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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).
“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
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“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
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