The Kite Runner

"I thought of all the times I had been a coward."

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

"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 day in 1975."

"There are paths to redemption, but they are long and difficult."

"Writing about myself and my sins felt almost like a betrayal of my family."

"I thought of Baba, of his final days in a hospital bed."

"He loved the idea of me, not me."

"I became what I became out of wedlock and nothing good can come of that."

"I envied her. Her secret was that she had nothing left to lose."

"The problem with writing about real people is that I'm sure I'm not remembering them the way they were."

"People like you and me, we are the lucky ones."

"But I was a liar. And I was a thief."

"I was going to be a father. I was going to be a teacher."

"For you, a thousand times over."

"There is a way to be good again."

"Maybe Hassan was right. Maybe I was just a scared boy."

"I wondered if that's how forgiveness worked in the real world, if it was really just a matter of telling the other person they were forgiven."

"I wondered if he ever thought of me the way I thought of him"

"The winter of 1975 was the winter everything changed"

"I am grateful for the chance to make amends"

"There is goodness in his eyes"

"I never told him I was sorry"

"He was just a boy, like me"

"Forgiveness is not the end of the story, it is the beginning"

"I asked him one thing: was the scar all that mattered"

"Hassan never knew about the money and watch"

"I looked at my son and saw my shame"

"Maybe standing up for the helpless is how you make God happy"