Amir

"There are monsters in this world"

"I wanted to take it back. All of it"

"Sohrab's eyes were like two empty wells"

"Perhaps this is just punishment"

"I wondered if that made me a good person"

"I ran because I was a coward"

"I wanted to ask him where he was going, but I didn't want him to know I cared"

"Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba"

"I had one friend. One loyal friend. And I destroyed him"

"I felt like a tourist in my own country"

"I am the man I am today in large part because of Baba"

"He was like a younger brother. Not related by blood, but nonetheless my brother"

"You will never again be my father"

"Every morning, I wake up afraid"

"I was a coward. A yellow coward"

"There is something in the way Baba looked at him that made me so jealous"

"I wept into the crisp afternoon air"

"I looked back one last time"

"There is no monster, just a man"

"I was not proud of my father now"

"He had killed the kite for me"

"I had to look at him in the eyes and apologize"

"My whole life, I had been a ghost in this house"

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frozen winter's day in 1975."

"I had one final chance to make things right, to be good again."

"We lived in the same house, but in different worlds."

"I don't want to forget, but I can't remember."

"I would have saved myself years of grief if I had just learned to say no."

"In the end, we're all just looking for redemption."

"Kabul had changed."