The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

You don’t keep your eyes to the sky, you won’t last much longer.

I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them.

He was yelling over his shoulder: For you, a thousand times over!

Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.