The Kite Runner

"Every sinner has a future."

"The wind had changed."

"I wanted to tell him he was wrong, but he wasn't."

"I opened my eyes and looked at him."

"We had both sinned and betrayed each other."

"I could step into that street when the moment came."

"Hassan never asked for anything but a smile."

"The winter of 1975 was a hard one."

"I had one last chance to be good again."

"I was afraid of Assef and what he might do to me."

"For you, a thousand times over."

"It is a risk I must take."

"Your father is a man of honor and so are you."

"But I'd seen a lot of things turn to ashes and since then I've been more careful about who I trust."

"I am a Pashtun and my father before me."

"The problem with Amir was he couldn't stand up for himself."

"Theft and lying breed more theft and lying."

"I looked at the twin kites dancing in the sky and it looked like they were saying something."

"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything."

"There is a way to be good again."

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

"I wanted to be a good son again."

"Maybe some people are just meant to be alone."

"I wonder what Hassan's final thoughts were."

"I wish I could go back and tell him everything."

"I thought of him the way I thought of mathematics or Latin."

"He's going to make a fine man."

"I had a chance to help Hassan and I didn't."

"A man who has no loyalty to anything at all is a man who cannot be trusted."

"Maybe I was meant to be alone all my life."