The Kite Runner Quotes

For you, a thousand times over. – Amir

There is only one sin. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. – Baba

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 197

– Amir

Hassan never denied me the right to withdraw my hand. – Amir

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. – Amir

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer. – Baba

It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. – Amir

For you, a thousand times over is not enough forever. – Amir

It wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins. – Amir

I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. – Amir

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors. – Rahim Khan

I will get Hassan’s son from Kabul. That’s what I’ll do. Bring him back from that war, back to his father. – Rahim Khan

And one more thing, General Sahib. You will never again refer to him as ‘a Hazara boy’ in my presence. He has a name, and it’s Sohrab. – Amir

Afghans like to say: Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, na-kamyab, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis. – Rahim Khan

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. – Rahim Khan

No matter how much mullahs might deny it, sin is a Persian rug they weave with their lies and hypocrisy. – Amir

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. – Amir

It’s a funny thing, Hope. It’s not like you can take it apart and, and fix it. It’s like the way you remember somebody’s voice-after it’s gone, you still hear them. – Sohrab

The lifelong friends, the backyard games, the violence, the deaths, the childish promises. – Amir

I wish someone would wake me up when the war is over. – Sohrab

Certainly, it is usual for the revolutionary’s life-story to end in failure, because the vast majority of revolutionaries fail. – Rahim Khan

How far would he have to go to be free of his memories? – Rahim Khan

I think a part of me was hoping I’d finally found something I couldn’t ruin. That I’d finally gone beyond the past I’d once said I could never overcome. – Amir

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 singer his voice is terrible, you destroy his confidence. – Baba

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. – Amir

Happiness is a fragile thing. – Rahim Khan

That was a long time ago, but 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. – Amir

When you’re hiding from a monster, a closet never looked so cozy. – Amir

People say that eyes are windows to the soul. A cliche, usually, but in Hassan’s case, one that I came to realize had dropped deep roots. – Amir

She smiled at me. And I wanted her to smile at me again. I wanted her to look at me as she had the day she saw me tearing through the streets like a madman. – Amir

My heart stuttered at the sight of her. A smile played on her lips. Bruises on her face and arms could not hide Mariam’s beauty. – Mariam

It was fast. It was quiet. It was a lot of things, but it was not painless. – Amir

Pain is just a memory. You can choose to remember differently. – Amir

There is a way to be good again. – Rahim Khan

His fingers were curled around the trigger. And in the time it took me to draw a breath, the Afghan man called Assef closed his fist and pulled the trigger. – Amir

There is only one sin. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. – Baba

It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place. – Amir

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. – Baba

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I missed him. Missed him even when he was around. – Amir

He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. – Amir

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. – Rahim Khan

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. – Amir

To me, it is just about the most shameful thing someone can do. Because when you kill a man, you steal a life. – Baba

In the end, the world always wins. That’s just the way of things. – Baba

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated. – Baba

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. – Baba

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

singer his voice is terrible, you destroy his confidence. – Baba

I’m thirty-eight years old and I’ve just been granted the life I’ve always dreamed of. And I never want to think of Hassan again. – Amir

And so I close my eyes, think of just today and busy myself with not losing hope. I will say this for the last time. Kite-fighting is not for kids, I said, kites are for grown-ups who know how to have fun. – Amir