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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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"It may exist unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a unmarried twenty-four hours, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"And that's the thing almost people who hateful everything they say. They recall everyone else does too."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"There is merely one sin. and that is theft... when y'all tell a prevarication, you steal someones right to the truth."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"it always hurts more to have and lose than to not take in the starting time place."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; non with the fanfare of epiphany, just with pain gathering its things, packing upwardly, and slipping abroad unannounced in the middle of the night."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"When yous kill a man, you lot steal a life. You steal his wife's correct to a hubby, rob his children of a begetter. When you tell a lie, you steal someone'south correct to the truth. When you crook, y'all steal the right to fairness."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"It was only a smiling, nothing more. Information technology didn't make everything all correct. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flying. Only I'll take information technology. With open up arms. Considering when leap comes, it melts the snow ane flake at a fourth dimension, and maybe I just witnessed the start flake melting. - Amir"
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They just let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Not a word passes between the states, not because we have null to say, only because we don't have to say annihilation"
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Time can be a greedy matter-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"A homo who has no conscience, no goodness, does not endure."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"It'southward wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, nigh how you can bury it. Because the by claws its way out."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Tranquility is turning downward the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of information technology. - Amir"
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"That aforementioned night, I wrote my first curt story. It took me xxx minutes. Information technology was a night little tale well-nigh a man who constitute a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had e'er been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. And so he found means to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. Equally the pearls piled upward, and so did his greed grow. The story concluded with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the loving cup with his beloved married woman's slain trunk in his artillery."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer dark and deliquesce somewhere far, over the hills. But I am hither, my legs blocks of physical, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Better to get injure past the truth than comforted with a prevarication."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"there is only i sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When y'all kill a man, you lot steal a life... you steal his wife'due south right to a married man, rob his children of a ather. When you tell a lie, yous steal someone's right to the truth. When you lot cheat, you steal the correct to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"State of war doesn't negate decency. Information technology demands it, even more than than in times of peace." - Baba"
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"One fourth dimension, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these dark-green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became difficult like a pulsate, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd simply waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I effort to remember what she said about the apples."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"In the stop, the world always wins. That'due south but the way of things."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Y'all've e'er been a tourist here. Yous just didn't know it."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"I opened my mouth, almost said something. About. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. Simply I didn't."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"I'yard so afraid. Because I'm so greatly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They just let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man'due south plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the globe in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Peradventure even hating him a little."
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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