The Kite Runner

"There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft, every other sin is a variation of theft.... There is no act more wretched than stealing"

"For you a thousand times over"

"I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with. I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them"

"My whole life, I had been Baba's son. Now he was gone, Baba couldn't show me the way anymore. I'd have to find out it on my own. The thought of it terrified me"

"There is a way to be good again. A way to be good again"

"How could I have been so blind? The signs had been there for me to see all along's they came flying back at me now"

"There was one thing that hadn't changed in Kabul after all. The kabob was as succulent and delicious as I remembered"

"A sadness came over me. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute"

"I had just learned more about my mother from this old man on the street than I ever did from Baba"

"Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out now they're related"

"Sohrab silence wasn't the self-imposed silence.... It was the silence of one who was taken cover in the dark place, curled up all the edge and tucked them under"