![]() My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. “One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. ![]() “I opened my mouth, almost said something. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. “The problem, of course, was that saw the world in black and white. You ladies, on the other hand…well, God put a lot of thought into making you.” ‘A man’s plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. ![]() “Men are easy,’ he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.” “Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. “It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. “A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.” “Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.” “People say that eyes are windows to the soul.” Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.” “She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.” A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. “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 always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.” “Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything” ![]() “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.” When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” 49 Powerful Quotes From The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini Here are the top quotes from The Kite Runner that will melt your heart. It was also nominated for the BAFTA Film Award, and the Critics Choice Award. The book was adapted as a motion picture four years after its publication. It became a bestseller and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. The Kite Runner is the first novel published by Khaled Hosseini. ![]()
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