The Kite Runner

Redemption.

"There is a way to be good again,"


"Sometimes, I think everything he [your father] did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good."

"Maybe," he thinks, "it was a hopeless place."

"A person who can't stand up for himself can never stand up for anything!!"

"You can't bury the past, he explains, "because the past claws its way out.""

"Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules."

"Do you always have to be the hero?"

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid, overcast day in the winter of 1975"

"I ran because I was a coward. I actually aspired to cowardice"

"For you, a thousand times over, Amir Jan"

Amir's story is simultaneously devastating and inspiring, read it..