The Kite Runner

"I had one friend. One"

"There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet"

"I was a coward"

"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything"

"It all comes back to the kite"

"I could wade into this river, stand in the middle, and not feel a thing"

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

"Theft and lying. Stealing toothpaste and books from the library"

"I ran. I ran because of the look on Baba's face"

"There is a way to be good again"

"For you, a thousand times over"

"Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay"

"I wondered if that made me a monster"

"I ran because I was a coward."

"I thought of Baba, of Ali, of Hassan. Mostly of Hassan."

"And that, I believe, is the true picture of redemption."

"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything."

"For you, a thousand times over."

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

"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."

"Hassan's loyalty was a mirror of my own weakness"

"In the end, I was finally able to run toward something"

"I learned that redemption requires sacrifice"

"I had to go back to Afghanistan, to face my past"

"This was the moment that defined everything"

"I could taste my own cowardice"

"Hassan never asked why I abandoned him"

"I looked for Baba in every man I met"

"Forgiveness is not erasure, but acceptance"