The Kite Runner Quotes

“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is only what you do and what you don’t do”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It was Homaira and me against the world. And I'll tell you this, Amir Jan : in the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There are only three real men in this world, Amir," he'd say. He'd count them off on his fingers: America the brash saviour, Britain and Israel. "The rest of them-" he used to wave his hand and make a phht sound "-they're like gossiping old women.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan-the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past- and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run.
In the end, I ran.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You nursed with him, but you're my twin”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You smiled coming out of me, did anyone ever tell you? And I wouldn't even hold you. Allah forgive me, I wouldn't even hold you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquillity. Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life.
Silence is pushing the OFF button. Shutting it down.
All of it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner