Amir

"I become what I have always been, a ghost in Baba's house"

"Maybe Hassan was right. Maybe I was just a coward"

"I had one final chance to make things right"

"Kites were the one thing Hassan and I had in common"

"He was my friend, not because I loved him, but because Baba did"

"Redemption is not something I could buy"

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain and time"

"I prayed to Allah to be the Amir that Baba had always wanted"

"In the end, I was a coward"

"Perhaps this was what God had intended all along"

"Baba raised me with one hand in the pocket of his waistcoat"

"I had the chance to change things, but I was too afraid"

"I wanted to be like Baba, strong and fearless"

"The kite contest was everything"

"I realized what I had lost could never be recovered"

"Rahim Khan had given me a path to redemption"

"I had become a man of compromises"

"Hassan's innocence was my guilt"

"I could run from the truth, but not from myself"

"In the end, I had to face what I had done"

"Baba never knew what I was capable of becoming"

"The mountains of Afghanistan were calling me home"

"I had wasted years running from a single moment"

"I looked for Baba in every man I met"

"Hassan never asked why I abandoned him"

"I could taste my own cowardice"

"This was the moment that defined everything"

"I had to go back to Afghanistan, to face my past"

"I learned that redemption requires sacrifice"

"In the end, I was finally able to run toward something"