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The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

A collection of lectures presented during the 1960s explores the roots of the American counter-cultural movement

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Khaled Hosseini (53)

“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: morals, Honesty, Truth

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

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffer, Goodness

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Past, Regret, Mistakes, Running

“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: Stealing, Death, Murder

“It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: Losing, Hurt Most, Gaining

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

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: honestly, Lies, Truth

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Literary Quotes, Lit quotes, Best Books

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, Life, unfair

“My whole life I had been 'Baba's son.' Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Finding Yourself

“Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you’re breathing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can m…”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, just breathe, Panic, Feelings

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Perfect Words

“And I'll tell you this, Amir Jan: In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Destiny, Fate

“For you, a thousand times over.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Loyalty, Friends, Friendship