The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini

Gutes Buch. Hier ein paar gute Zitate:

"Better to get hurt by the truth than conforted with a lie"
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"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 (The Kite Runner)

"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 (The Kite Runner)

"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
— Khaled Hosseini
(... das kennen wir doch irgendwo her:"... die Frau, die du mir gegeben hast ..." (Adam in Genesis))

"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft....When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

"A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)