"The Kite Runner" Quotes

For you, a thousand times over.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

There is only one sin. And that is theft... When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.

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

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

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.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great.

I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with. I opened my mouth and almost told her how I'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali. But I didn't.

But it's hard to forget when a person has seen something so haunting. Like a nightmare that lingers after you wake up.

The past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.