The Kite Runner

"I wanted to ask him where he was going, but I didn't want him to know I cared"

"The problem with Kabul these days is that everyone is a conspirator"

"How many girls does it take to change a lightbulb? None, that's a man's job"

"I ran because I was a coward"

"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 wondered if that made me a good person"

"Perhaps this is just punishment"

"Sohrab's eyes were like two empty wells"

"I wanted to take it back. All of it"

"There are monsters in this world"

"Baba and I lived in silence"

"I had betrayed the person closest to me"

"I was looking for a way to be good again"

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

"The Taliban was worse than I imagined"

"Ghosts. I had become a ghost"

"I could tell by the way he looked at me that he knew"

"She was like a stone in the middle of a river"

"I was going to be a doctor. That was Baba's plan"

"Words like 'imbecile' and 'idiot' and 'moron' made me wince"

"I loved Baba. But I feared him too"

"I am Sunni. Hassan is Shia"

"I wanted to call him back and tell him that I was sorry"

"I could escape into the streets, into the bazaar"

"America was a place to bury my sins"

"Soraya was a paradox"

"I never told on you. Not once"

"I'm not your Baba, am I"

"You will always be my son"