The Kite Runner

• Amir - "I became what I am today at the age of twelve"
• motif - "for you, a thousand times over"
• motif - "there is a way to be good again"
• "Hassan never denied me anything"
• Baba had "the prettiest house in all of Kabul"
• Hassan and Ali lived in "a modest little mud hut"
• "what a tight little sugary cunt she had"

  She also "tempted countless men into sin"
• "school textbooks barely mentioned (Hazaras)"
• "Hassan and I fed from the same breasts"

  "Mine was Baba. His was Amir"
• "wrestled a black bear... with his bare hands"

  "I can never tell Baba from the bear"
• Baba - "there is no act more wretched than stealing"
• "I had killed his beloved wife"
• "I'd never believe he's my son"
• "I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either"
• "I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara... nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing"
• "as always, it was Rahim Khan who rescued me"
• Assef - "they dirty our blood"
• "Baba never missed Hassan's birthday"
• "there was something fascinating about teasing Hassan" "harmless prank"
• "But you can't swim"
• Assef - "A loyal Hazara. Loyal as a dog"
• "it was the look of the lamb"
• "He was just a Hazara, wasn't he?"
• "I hurled the pomegranate at him" "Hit me back!"
• Baba - "war doesn't negate decency. It demands it"
• "Baba bellowed in Farsi" "Get out or I call the police" - doesn't fit in in America
• "A pair of steel hands closed around my windpipe at the sound of Hassan's name"
• "I was fully aware of the Afghan double standard that favoured my gender"
• "Baba never woke up"
• "The Taliban banned kite flying. In 1998, they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif"
• Rahim Khan - "It was a shameful situation. We couldn't tell anyone, surely you can see that"
• Farid - "You've always been a tourist here"
• Amir tells Farid and his family "my illegitimate half brother"
• Kabul has become "rubble and beggars"
• Sohrab is "great with the slingshot. He's inseparable from that thing"
• orphanage leader - "If I deny him one child, he takes ten"
• "WE SHALL THROW THE STONES BACK"

  "mangled mess of blood and shredded rags"
• Assef - "someone has to take out the garbage... ethnic cleansing. I like it"
• during the fight, Amir "felt at peace"
• "There are lots of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood"