The Kite Runner

"I never got my chance with Baba."

"The past is a genie that can't be put back in the bottle."

"Kabul was my home, and yet it felt like a foreign land."

"In the end, I was a coward."

"I am what I am and nothing can change that."

"We had both betrayed what we cherished most."

"Would people forgive me for a life spent fleeing?"

"I am sorry for what I've done."

"His name is Sohrab. He's my half-brother."

"I was going to be sick."

"Ordinary things in life change you."

"Maybe Hassan was right. Maybe if we went there, if we found a way."

"I would always be haunted by the look on Hassan's face."

"Children aren't cruel. They're just people."

"History isn't easy to overcome. Neither is shame."

"I kept Baba's watch. I still wear it."

"I stuffed the money under Hassan's pillow."

"He was still my brother."

"I looked at the twin towers standing in the smoky haze and thought of Hassan."

"I think you're going to like it here in America."

"Everybody has an Achilles' heel."

"I could take a thousand guesses and never come close to the truth."

"The winter of 1975 was when the events that would shape the rest of my life took place."

"That's what I do, I write my wrongs."

"It's wrong what they do to boys like Hassan."

"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life."

"For you, a thousand times over."

"I ran because I was a coward."

"You will always be Babalu to me, Amir."

"Maybe we're all monsters. Maybe we're all capable of monstrous things."