The Kite Runner

"Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I bought with a rug."

"There is a way to be good again."

"I could be good to him now."

"The kites were still flying in Kabul."

"I wasn't worthy of his forgiveness."

"There was a way to fix things."

"He smiled, that same smile from childhood."

"I ran the way I had run before."

"Some people don't deserve forgiveness."

"Soraya was my second chance."

"I had to know what happened."

"The boy was innocent."

"I wanted to be normal again."

"Hassan's face was kind even in sorrow."

"I was a boy who could not stand up for himself."

"The Taliban had destroyed more than buildings."

"I thought I'd gotten away with it."

"There was no good answer for that."

"America had treated us well."

"I would buy him back."

"My father had a way of patting my back that meant he was proud."

"I hadn't thought of him in years."

"The streets of Kabul were dangerous now."

"He knew I was a liar."

"We were both children, weren't we?"

"I hadn't forgotten how to be a coward."

"Kabul was a beautiful place once."

"I would find him, that boy who had haunted me for years."

"There are sins that destroy nations."

"I had already betrayed once before."