Chapter 1 – 5
There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.”
“A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”
Chapter 6 – 10
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had.” (Amir, Chap 7)
“It was a look I had seen before. It was the look of the lamb.”
“Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba.”
“Baba held me close to him, rocking me back and forth. In his arms, I forgot what I had done. And that was good.”
“I finally had what I wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, I felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.”
“A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn’t have to live with this lie anymore…in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.”
“There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster.”
“On the surface, he was the embodiment of every parent’s dream, a strong, tall, well-dressed and well-mannered boy…But to me, his eyes betrayed him. When I looked into them, the facade faltered, revealed a glimpse of the madness hiding behind them.”
“I lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it…then I knocked on Baba’s door and told what I hoped would be the last in a long line of shameful lies.”
“I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake.”
“A part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon.”
“Do you have to always be the hero? I thought, my heart fluttering. Can’t you just let it go for once?”
“Tell him I’ll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place”
Chapter 11 – 14
Baba loved the idea of America.”
“For me, America was a place to bury my memories.”
“A pair of steel hands closed around my windpipe at the sound of Hassan’s name. I rolled down the window. Waited for the steel hands to loosen their grip.”
“…I would stand my ground, I decided. I didn’t want to sacrifice for Baba anymore. The last time I had done that, I had damned myself.”
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir.”
“Sad stories make good books.”
Chapter 15 – 20
Chapter 21 – 25
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