The Kite Runner 2007 quotes, page 2

It's a dangerous thing, being born. Dangerous for the mother, dangerous for the child. Your father would die for you.
To Amir

Amir

The citizens of Kabul were skeletons now. Skeletons selling naswar in the night market, skeletons drinking cups of strong tea, skeletons playing cards in the moonlight. They greeted me as I passed, teeth clacking together in their jaws. "Salaam, brother," they said. "Welcome home."

Amir

The mullahs at school say drinking is a sin. They say drinkers will pay when the Reckoning comes.
To Baba

There is a way to be good again.
To Amir

Baba

There is no pain today.

Baba

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft....When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

They call this area Afghan Town. Sometimes it feels like Peshawar is a suburb of Kabul.
Pakistan Taxi Driver

Baba

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

Amir

Who are we in this complicated world?

You are among peers. Everyone here is a storyteller.
General Taheri to Amir, showing contempt of his writing skills

Baba

You bring me shame.
To Amir

Amir

You see, General Sahib, my father slept with his servant's wife, and she bore him a son named Hassan. Hassan is dead now. That boy sleeping in the other room is Hassan's son. He's my nephew. That's what you tell people when they ask. And one more thing, General Sahib: you will never again refer to him as "a Hazara boy" in my presence. He has a name, and it's Sohrab.
Explaining Sohrab's presence to General Taheri