The Kite Runner Quotations

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

• Amir

• Hassan

• Ali

• Baba

"I want my old life back."

• Sohrab

• Amir

• Hassan

• Soraya

"... my entire life... had been a cycle of lies, betrayals, and secrets."

• Baba

• Soraya

• Sohrab

• Amir

"Ethnic cleansing. I like it. I like the sound of it."

• Amir

• Assef

• General Taheri

• Farid

"That's the real Afghanistan... You've always been a tourist here, you just didn't know it."

• Assef

• Rahim Khan

• Farid

• General Taheri

"For you a thousand times over." - The first time it is spoken

• Amir

• Hassan

• Sohrab

• Ali

"People will ask. They will want to know why there is a Hazara boy living with our daughter."

• General Taheri

• Farid

• Assef

• Baba

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

• Hassan

• Rahim Khan

• Amir

• Baba

“There is a way to be good again...”

• Baba

• Ali

• Farid

• Rahim Khan

“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.”

• Baba

• Hassan

• Amir

• Soraya