104 Quotes About The-kite-runner

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

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. - Amir

(...) Kabulul devenise pentru mine un oraș al fantomelor. Un oraș al fantomelor cu buze de iepure. America era diferită. America era un fluviu impetuos, nepăsător cu trecutul. Puteam să mă scufund în fluviul ăsta, să-mi las păcatele să se înece la fund, să las apele să mă ducă undeva, departe. Undeva unde nu sunt nici fantome, nici amintiri, nici păcate. Chiar și numai pentru asta, am adoptat America.

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... 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.

Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro.

Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!

For you, a thousand times over

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran

I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...