Khaled Hosseini Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• 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

  Children, Husband, Father

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.92, A&C Black

• And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Real, Believe

• I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Flames, Knives

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.104, Penguin

• In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Father, Water

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.290, A&C Black

• If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Art, Father

• Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, War, Hero

• My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Fleas, Flea Markets

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

• The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Boys, Two

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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