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Soon, sleep comes and I let it take me. I dream of things I can’t remember later.

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 341). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“My boys,” he said. “They’re saying, ‘Daddy, Daddy, please buy us bicycles and we’ll not trouble you. Please, Daddy!’” He gave a short laugh through his nose. “Bicycles. Their mother will kill me, I swear to you.”

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 309). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"Piss on the beards of all those self-righteous monkeys. They do nothing but thumb their rosaries and recite a book written in a tongue they don’t even understand. God help us all if Afghanistan ever falls into their hands."

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 266). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"The streets are full enough already of hungry orphans and every day I thank Allah that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan."

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 215). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"IN THE SUMMER of 1988, about six months before the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, I finished my first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter the general had given me."

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 181). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

"I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with. I opened my mouth and almost told her how I’d betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali. But I didn’t. I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them."

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 165). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

He said it to Karim, but looked directly at the Russian officer. “Ask him where his shame is.” They spoke. “He says this is war. There is no shame in war.”

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 117). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. “For you a thousand times over!”

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 71). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“You know…I like where I live.” He was always doing that, reading my mind.

“It’s my home.” “Whatever,” I said. “Get ready to lose again.”

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 63). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

“And where is he headed?” Baba said. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner (p. 29). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.