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The Kite Runner Quotes

 “There is a way to be good again.” This is said by Rahim Khan to


Amir to encourage him to help Hassan’s son escape Afghanistan
and finally redeem himself.
 “I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six
years.” Said by Amir, story opener that talks about the time he
betrayed his best friend Hassan in an alley in Kabul.
 “There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the
same breast, a kinship that even time could not break.”
 "For you, a thousand times over." This is said by Hassan to Amir
as Hassan runs his last kite, the prized blue one that would earn
Amir his Baba's praises. Years later, Amir still remembers these
words when he thinks of Hassan.
 "I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him
from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in turmoil of
uncertainty."
 "Because when spring comes it melts the snow one flake at a time,
and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting" Referring to the
smile on Sohrab's face, the first one seen in America.
 "I had been the entitled half, the society-approved, legitimate half,
the unwitting embodiment of Baba's guilt. I looked at Hassan,
showing those two missing front teeth, sunlight slanting on his
face. Baba's other half. The unentitled, under-privileged half. The
half who had inherited what had been pure and noble in Baba. The
half that, maybe, in the most secret recesses of his heart, Baba had
thought of as his true son."
"I looked down at Sohrab. One corner of his mouth had curled up just
so. A smile. Lopsided. Hardly there. But there."

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