![]() Take two Afghans who’ve never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they’ll figure out how they’re related.Ģ8. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.Ģ7. The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn’t been good to him, that he’d become homeless and destitute.Ģ6. The wars had made fathers a rare commodity in Afghanistan.Ģ5. As an Afghan, I knew it was better to be miserable than rude.Ģ3. But time can be a greedy thing, sometimes it steals all the details for itself.Ģ2. Zendagi migzara, we say, life goes on.Ģ1. We give in to loss, to suffering, accept it as a fact of life, even see it as necessary. We’re a melancholic people, we Afghans, aren’t we? Often, we wallow too much in ghamkhori and self-pity. We may be hardheaded and I know we’re far too proud, but, in the hour of need, believe me that there’s no one you’d rather have at your side than a Pashtun.ġ8. He has nang (honor) and namoos (pride).ġ7. ![]() It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even in a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.ġ6. Well, people need stories to divert them at difficult times like this.ġ5. Long before the Roussi army marched into Afghanistan, long before villages were burned and schools destroyed, long before mines were planted like seeds of death and children buried in rock-piled graves, Kabul had become a city of ghosts for me. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.ġ3. There is no act more wretched than stealing.ġ1. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. You steal his wife’s right to be a husband, rob his children of a father. You don’t order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them ‘sister’ the next.ġ0. But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.ĩ. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.ħ. If the kite was the gun, then tar, the glass-coated cutting line, was the bullet in the chamber.Ħ. A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up for anything.ĥ. God helps us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands.Ĥ. They do nothing but thumb their prayer beads and recite a book written in a tongue they don’t even understand. Maybe Afghanistan hadn’t forgotten me either.ģ. I thought I had forgotten about this land. The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land it suprised me. And in this article we’ll talk about some of the quotes from The Kite Runner.ġ. In fact, other than the tale, the novel also contains some very important quotes that also deserve attention. In Khaled Hosseini’s mesmerising novel, The Kite Runner, we come across the story of Amir and Hassan.
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