The Kite Runner

"I envied him. Envied the way Hassan loved."

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."

"Kabul had become a place of ghosts."

"I had one last chance to make things right."

"The winter of 1975 was when everything changed."

"Assef was a sociopath in the making."

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve."

"Go. There is a way to be good again."

"For you, a thousand times over."

"I realized the problem, of course: I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara."

"Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba's love."

"There is a way to be good again."

"The Winter of 1975 was when Hassan stopped smiling."

"I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom."

"It's wrong what we're doing, is it?"

"A man who won't stand up for anything will fall for anything."

"I think we're a lot alike, you and I."

"Theft and lying were part of their world."

"When you kill for the first time, you lose your innocence."

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid December day in 1975."

"For you, a thousand times over."

"There is a way to be good again."