The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. Profoundly inspirational Kite Runner quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

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Famous Kite Runner Quotes

A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything. Khaled Hosseini

For you, a thousand times over. Khaled Hosseini

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. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty six years. Khaled Hosseini

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

I know, he said, breaking our embrace. Inshallah, we’ll celebrate later. Right now, I’m going to run that blue kite for you, he said. He dropped the spool and took off running, the hem of his green chapan dragging in the snow behind him. Hassan! I called. Come back with it! He was already turning the street corner, his rubber boots kicking up snow. He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. For you a thousand times over! he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. The next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph. Khaled Hosseini

And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. Khaled Hosseini

Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Khaled Hosseini

There is only one sin. and that is theft when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. Khaled Hosseini

That was when Baba stood up. It was my turn to clamp a hand on his thigh, but Baba pried it loose, snatched his leg away. When he stood, he eclipsed the moonlight. I want you 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 war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he’s wrong. War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. Khaled Hosseini

It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place. Khaled Hosseini

My body was broken just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed. Khaled Hosseini

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. Khaled Hosseini

Then he saw me and waved. Smiled. He motioned for me to wear my mortarboard, and took a picture of me with the school’s clock tower in the background. I smiled for him in a way, this was his day more than mine. He walked to me, curled his arm around my neck, and gave my brow a single kiss. I am moftakhir, Amir, he said. Proud. His eyes gleamed when he said that and I liked being on the receiving end of that look. Khaled Hosseini

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. Khaled Hosseini

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t. I just watched. Paralyzed. Khaled Hosseini

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 lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Khaled Hosseini

You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it. Khaled Hosseini

She said, I’m so afraid. And I said, why? and she said, Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. 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. Khaled Hosseini

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything. Khaled Hosseini

People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Khaled Hosseini

With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little. Khaled Hosseini

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. Khaled Hosseini

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors. Khaled Hosseini

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

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

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. Khaled Hosseini

But I hope you will heed this A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer. Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.  Khaled Hosseini

For me America was a place to bury memories. For Baba a place to mourn his. Khaled Hosseini

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms. Khaled Hosseini

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. Khaled Hosseini

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. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away. Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Khaled Hosseini

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. Khaled Hosseini

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

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I’d just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn’t have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples. Khaled Hosseini

And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. Khaled Hosseini

In the end, the world always wins. That’s just the way of things. Khaled Hosseini

Some stories don’t need telling. Khaled Hosseini

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t. Khaled Hosseini

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