THE KITE RUNNER – CHARACTER QUOTES
CHARACTER QUOTE
Amir ‘Baba, have you ever thought about getting new servants?’
‘I felt like a man sliding down a steep cliff’
‘My whole life is one big fucking lie!’
‘You promised you’d never put me in one of those places, Amir’
‘We won! We won!’
‘Seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last’
‘Stories, you mean. You’ll make up stories’
‘Baba hated it when I cried’
Baba ‘Think of something good… Hassan and I’
‘There is only one sin, only one’
‘There’s something missing in that boy’
‘A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand
up to anything’
‘War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it’
‘I don’t like it free money’
‘Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumour’
‘There are only three real men in this world’
‘The man is a Pashtun to the root’
‘God help us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands’
‘Amir is going to be a great writer’
Hassan ‘For you a thousand times over’
‘Would I ever lie to you?’
Assef ‘Would he do the same for you?
‘Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns’
‘Let the bullets fly free’
‘Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage’
Sohrab ‘I’m so dirty and full of sin’
‘Because he was a Hazara’
Ali ‘As mad as someone as gentle as Ali could get’
‘In none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend’
‘Until polio crippled Ali’s leg’
Soraya ‘I heard you write’
‘I have to have my faced rubbed in it for the rest of my life’
‘He couldn’t keep me locked up forever’
‘My father showed up with a gun that night’
Rahim Khan ‘I pleaded for them to move in’
‘You know how he always worried about you’
‘I was eighteen… she was a Hazara’
‘In the end, the world always wins. That’s just the way of things’
CHARACTER QUOTE
Amir ‘Baba, have you ever thought about getting new servants?’
‘I felt like a man sliding down a steep cliff’
‘My whole life is one big fucking lie!’
‘You promised you’d never put me in one of those places, Amir’
‘We won! We won!’
‘Seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last’
‘Stories, you mean. You’ll make up stories’
‘Baba hated it when I cried’
Baba ‘Think of something good… Hassan and I’
‘There is only one sin, only one’
‘There’s something missing in that boy’
‘A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand
up to anything’
‘War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it’
‘I don’t like it free money’
‘Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumour’
‘There are only three real men in this world’
‘The man is a Pashtun to the root’
‘God help us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands’
‘Amir is going to be a great writer’
Hassan ‘For you a thousand times over’
‘Would I ever lie to you?’
Assef ‘Would he do the same for you?
‘Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns’
‘Let the bullets fly free’
‘Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage’
Sohrab ‘I’m so dirty and full of sin’
‘Because he was a Hazara’
Ali ‘As mad as someone as gentle as Ali could get’
‘In none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend’
‘Until polio crippled Ali’s leg’
Soraya ‘I heard you write’
‘I have to have my faced rubbed in it for the rest of my life’
‘He couldn’t keep me locked up forever’
‘My father showed up with a gun that night’
Rahim Khan ‘I pleaded for them to move in’
‘You know how he always worried about you’
‘I was eighteen… she was a Hazara’
‘In the end, the world always wins. That’s just the way of things’
