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The Kite Runner: Best Quotes with Page Numbers

Summary of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Who can await back upon their life without regret, especially their childhood, where so many of us learned tough lessons about friendship, bullying, and social repercussions?

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a young boy named Amir. Set up against the background of the fall of Afghanistan's government to the Soviet Spousal relationship and the rise of the Taliban regime, Amir and his father ("Baba") leave Afghanistan and move to the United States, where haunting memories of his childhood best friend—Hassan, the son of his male parent's servant—and unfinished business draw Amir back to Afghanistan.

If you're looking for a light, experience-good read, put The Kite Runner back on the shelf. If you're looking for a heavy, poignant story, selection it back up. A mod humanist novel, The Kite Runner explores deep feelings of guilt, regret, and redemption. The book is unquestionably intense, only it is well worth the read. Existent emotion and beautiful moments polish through the depressing events and setting.

"There is a fashion to be good again." (2)

The All-time Quotes (with Page Numbers)

• "I loved him because he was my friend, merely likewise because he was a good homo, perhaps even a great man. And this is what I want you to sympathize, that good, real good, was built-in out of your father'southward remorse. Sometimes, I call up everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving coin to friends in demand, information technology was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to proficient." (302)
• As he was slipping the central into the antechamber door, I said, "I wish you'd give the chemo a chance, Baba."
  Baba pocketed the keys, pulled me out of the pelting and under the building'south striped awning. He kneaded me on the breast with the hand holding the cigarette. "Bas! I've fabricated my conclusion."
  "What near me, Baba? What am I supposed to exercise?" I said, my eyes welling up. A look of disgust swept across his rain-soaked face up. Information technology was the same look he'd given me when, equally a kid, I'd fall, scrape me knees, and weep. It was the crying that brought information technology on then, the crying that brought it on now. 'You're twenty-two years old, Amir! A grown man! Y'all…" he opened his oral fissure, closed information technology, opened it again, reconsidered. Above us, rain drummed on the canvas awning. 'What'southward going to happen to yous, you say? All those years, that'due south what I was trying to teach you, how to never have to ask that question." (156 – 157)

"What was the old saying about the bad penny? My past was like that, ever turning upwardly." (281)

Another honk. I walked back to the Land Cruiser parked along the sidewalk. Farid sat smoking behind the wheel.
"I accept to await at ane more thing," I told him.
"Tin y'all hurry?"
"Give me ten minutes."
"Become, then." And so, just as I was turning to go: "Just forget it all. Makes information technology easier."
"To what?"
"To go along," Farid said. He flicked his cigarette out the window. "How much more than do you lot need to see? Let me salvage you the trouble: Nothing that you remember has survived. Best to forget."
"I don't want to forget anymore," I said. "Requite me 10 minutes." (263)

"It always hurts more than to have and lose than to not accept in the first place." (211)

• "I recollect the precise moment, crouching behind a aging mud wall, peeking into the alley nigh the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but information technology'south incorrect what they say well-nigh the past, I've learned, nigh how y'all can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last 20-6 years." (one)
• "But I hope y'all will heed this: A man who has no censor, no goodness, does not endure." (301)
• "Insanely, I wanted to go in. Wanted to walk up the front steps where Ali used to make Hassan and me accept off our snow boots. I wanted to step into the foyer, smell the orange skin Ali e'er tossed into the stove to burn with sawdust. Sit at the kitchen table, take tea with a piece of naan, listen to Hassan sing sometime Hazara songs."
• "How long?" Sohrab asked.
  "I don't know. A while."
  Sohrab shrugged and smiled, wider this time. "I don't mind. I can expect. Information technology'south like the sour apples."
  "Sour apples?"
  "One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Female parent said that if I'd but waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. Then at present, whenever I really want something, I endeavour to remember what she said most the apples." (340)
• "That was when Baba stood up. Information technology was my turn to clamp a manus on his thigh, but Baba pried it loose, snatched his leg away. When he stood, he eclipsed the moonlight. 'I want you lot to ask this man something,' Baba said. He said it to Karim, but looked directly at the Russian officer. 'Ask him where his shame is.'"
  They spoke. "He says this is state of war. There is no shame in state of war."
  "Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than than in times of peace." (115)

"It hurts to say that. But better to get hurt past the truth than comforted with a lie." (58)

• "I accept a wife in America, a dwelling house, a career, and a family. Kabul is a dangerous place, you know that, and you'd take me hazard everything for…" I stopped.
  "Y'all know," Rahim Khan said, "one fourth dimension, when yous weren't around, your father and I were talking. And you know how he always worried about you lot in those days. I call back he said to me, 'Rahim, a boy who won't stand for himself becomes a man who can't stand upwardly to annihilation.' I wonder, is that what y'all've become?" (221)
• With me as the glaring exception, my begetter molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the globe in blackness and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't dear a person who lives that way without fearing him also. Mayhap even hating him a little. (15)
• Maybe this was my penalization, and possibly justly then. Information technology wasn't meant to exist, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, information technology was meant not to be. (188)
• "Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, in that location is only one sin, merely ane. And that is theft. Every sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that?"
  "No, Baba jan," I said, desperately wishing I did. I didn't desire to disappoint him again.
  "When yous impale a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife'southward correct to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you lot tell a lie, you steal someone'southward right to the truth. When yous cheat, you lot steal the correct to fairness. Do yous run across?" (xviii)

"Children aren't coloring books. Yous don't get to fill them with your favorite colors." (21)

• We crossed the border and the signs of poverty were everywhere. On either side of the road, I saw chains of little villages sprouting here and there, similar discarded toys among the rocks, cleaved mud houses and huts consisting of little more than four wooden poles and a tattered textile as a roof. I saw children dressed in rags chasing a soccer brawl exterior the huts. A few miles later, I spotted a cluster of men sitting on their haunches, similar a row of crows, on the carcass of an old burned-out Soviet tank, the wind fluttering the edges of the blankets thrown around them. Backside them, a woman in a brown burqa carried a large clay pot on her shoulder, downwardly a rutted path toward a cord of mud houses.
  "Strange," I said.
  "What?"
  "I feel like a tourist in my ain country," I said, taking in a goatherd leading a half-dozen emaciated goats along the side of the road.
  Farid snickered. Tossed his cigarette. "You still call back of this place as your country?"
  "I think a office of me always will," I said, more defensively than I had intended.
  "After 20 years of living in America," he said, swerving the truck to avoid a pothole the size of a embankment ball.
  I nodded. "I grew upward in Afghanistan."
  Farid snickered again.
  "Why exercise yous practice that?"
  "Never mind," he murmured.
  "No, I want to know. Why do you practice that?"
  In his rearview mirror, I saw something wink in his eyes. "You want to know?" he sneered. "Permit me imagine, Agha sahib. You probably lived in a big two- or three-story house with a squeamish backyard that your gardener filled with flowers and fruit trees. All gated, of form. Your begetter collection an American car. You had servants, probably Hazaras. Your parents hired workers to decorate the house for the fancy mehmanis they threw, so their friends would come over to drinkable and boast about their travels to Europe or America. And I would bet my starting time son'south eyes that this is the start fourth dimension you've always worn a pakol." He grinned at me, revealing a mouthful of prematurely rotting teeth. "Am I close?"
  "Why are you saying these things?" I said.
  "Because yous wanted to know," he spat. He pointed to an old man dressed in ragged clothes trudging down a clay path, a large burlap pack filled with scrub grass tied to his dorsum. "That's the real Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, Agha sahib. That'south the Afghanistan I know. You? Y'all've always been a tourist hither, you but didn't know it." (231 – 232)

"Information technology may exist unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes fifty-fifty a single day, can change the grade of a whole lifetime, Amir." (142)

• "You should have seen the look on my father's face when I told him. My mother actually fainted. My sisters splashed her face with water. They fanned her and looked at me as if I had slit her throat. My brother Jalal actually went to fetch his hunting rifle before my begetter stopped him. It was Homaira and me against the earth. And I'll tell you this, Amir january: In the cease, the globe always wins. That's just the manner of things." (99)
• 1 twenty-four hours, peradventure around 1983 or 1984, I was at a video store in Fremont. I was standing in the Westerns section when a guy next to me, sipping Coke from a vii-Eleven cup, pointed toThe Magnificent Seven and asked me if I had seen information technology. "Yes, thirteen times," I said. "Charles Bronson dies in it, and then practise James Coburn and Robert Vaughn." He gave me a pinch-faced look, as if I had just spat in his soda. "Thanks a lot, human being," he said, shaking his head and muttering something as he walked abroad. That was when I learned that, in America, you lot don't reveal the ending of the moving-picture show, and if y'all do, you lot will exist scorned and fabricated to repent profusely for having committed the sin of Spoiling the End.
  In Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, the ending was all that mattered. When Hassan and I came abode after watching a Hindi pic at Cinema Zainab, what Ali, Rahim Khan, Baba, or the myriad of Baba's friends—2d and third cousins milling in and out of the house—wanted to know was this: Did the Daughter in the film find happiness? Did the bacheh pic, the Guy in the pic, getkamyab and fulfill his dreams, or was he nah-kam, doomed to wallow in failure?
  Was there happiness at the end, they wanted to know.
  If someone were to inquire me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say.
  Does everyone's?
  After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving frontward like a irksome, dusty caravan of kochis. (356 – 357)

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