The Kite Runner Sayings

#1. I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

Marc Forster

#3. The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

Khaled Hosseini

#4. For you, a thousand times over - The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

#5. 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

Khaled Hosseini

#6. When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?

Hal Holbrook

#7. All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

Henri Bergson

#8. I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

#10. You shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#11. A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Anthony Marra

#12. A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

Stanley Smith Stevens

#13. It wasn't meant to be, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.

Khaled Hosseini

#14. You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

Khaled Hosseini

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

Khaled Hosseini

#16. For you, a thousand times over

Khaled Hosseini

#17. Thats the thing about people who mean every thing they say. They think everybody else does too.

Khaled Hosseini

#18. This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service's success was how often users returned.

David Kirkpatrick