The Kite Runner

"We had to escape Afghanistan to survive."

"Sometimes, I lie awake at night wondering what would have happened."

"He was a kindred spirit with me."

"I was a coward. I was a thief."

"Kabul, 1975. The last day of Amir's childhood."

"I thought of Hassan's final act of defiance."

"His son was a coward who couldn't stand up for anyone."

"I was going to run that kite, and I was going to run it well."

"The only way to stand up to bullies is to stand together."

"I remembered Baba, and I remembered him as strong."

"A boy who has been seen sexually abused will not be the same boy anymore."

"God help the Hazaras."

"I am the ghost of everything your father ever did wrong."

"Some people save you because they love you. Some people save you because of guilt."

"Kabul had changed."

"In the end, we're all just looking for redemption."

"I would have saved myself years of grief if I had just learned to say no."

"The hardest thing to do is the right thing."

"There is no monster, just a man."

"I don't want to forget, but I can't remember."

"We lived in the same house, but in different worlds."

"For you, a thousand times over."

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

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

"I wish I could be the mean Afghani to you sometimes."

"When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father."

"Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage."

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

"There is a way to be good again."

"For you a thousand times over"