I read “The Kite Runner” last year. I wrote one of my first book reviews on it. Reading other great reviews now, I think whether what I write is a review or just a collection of my thoughts on a book. Maybe I should change the title of my posts to my thoughts instead of book reviews. But yes, reading this one, and reading some of my reviews right now, I can see a little difference over a year. Little improvements. Well, I am learning and growing with each review. At least I hope so.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from this novel.
“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“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, The Kite Runner
“I’m so afraid. Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening…They only let you this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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, The Kite Runner
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, The Kite Runner
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, The Kite Runner
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything all right. It didn’t make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. But I’ll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“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, The Kite Runner
“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
