The Kite Runner

"I realized I had been running my whole life, from everything and everyone"

"I wondered what Hassan would think of me now. Would he forgive me?"

"A man who doesn't stand up for himself is a man who can't stand up to anything"

"I thought of all the things we had left unsaid, all the words that had died in my throat"

"How could I love and resent my father simultaneously?"

"I opened my mouth. And I told him everything"

"Will you ever forgive me?"

"I looked at him and saw a man who had given everything to his son"

"That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what we've done to you, it's wrong"

"I was going to be a father. A father to a boy who had already lost his mother"

"The life of a man with no honor is a life of disgrace"

"He stopped my breath. And he stopped it in more ways than one"

"I had one last chance to make it right. I had to take it"

"You can be anything you want, Amir. But perhaps it's better if you're honest"

"I was afraid of Assef and what he might do. But mostly I was afraid of looking at Hassan"

"Assef is a sociopath. That's the difference between him and us"

"I found them in the drawer of my nightstand, collecting dust"

"I could finally look back in the past without it causing me pain"

"A man who has no conscience is a man who is not fit to live"

"I think we're all monsters, but the ones we find ways to live with are the ones we don't see every day"

"We had both betrayed and been betrayed"

"The cold water shocked the air right out of my lungs"

"I looked at the deserted street, and I had the sudden urge to drag him back to the study, shut the doors, and tell him everything"

"I have a way to be good again. I have a way to end the cycle"

"That's what I'll do, Rahim Khan said. That's what I'll do"

"He had a harelip. It was like a stain on his face"

"I wondered if God was listening"

"I'll be your sacrifice"

"But we were different, Hassan and I. I was Pashtun; he was Hazara"

"Maybe we are just waiting for all of us to be under the same roof again, in the house of Baba"