The Kite Runner

"I had wasted years running from a single moment"

"The mountains of Afghanistan were calling me home"

"Baba never knew what I was capable of becoming"

"In the end, I had to face what I had done"

"I could run from the truth, but not from myself"

"Hassan's innocence was my guilt"

"I had become a man of compromises"

"Rahim Khan had given me a path to redemption"

"I realized what I had lost could never be recovered"

"The kite contest was everything"

"I wanted to be like Baba, strong and fearless"

"I had the chance to change things, but I was too afraid"

"Baba raised me with one hand in the pocket of his waistcoat"

"Perhaps this was what God had intended all along"

"In the end, I was a coward"

"I prayed to Allah to be the Amir that Baba had always wanted"

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

"He clears his throat and tells a joke about a merchant"

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain and time"

"Redemption is not something I could buy"

"He was my friend, not because I loved him, but because Baba did"

"Kites were the one thing Hassan and I had in common"

"I had one final chance to make things right"

"It is a cold place, the past, when a man cuts himself off from it"

"There is a way to be good again"

"For you, a thousand times over"

"Maybe Hassan was right. Maybe I was just a coward"

"I become what I have always been, a ghost in Baba's house"

"I have a sin upon my soul."

"Soraya deserved a man who had not done what I had done."