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Hassan - “Would you ever ask me to do such a thing, Amir agha” (54)?

Amir - “From just around the corner, I could hear Assef’s quick, rhythmic grunts” (77).

Ali - "'Lately, it seems all he wants to do is sleep...'" (81).

Amir - "I finally had what I'd wanted all those years.  Except now that I had it, I felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into" (85).

Amir - "There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster" (86).

Amir - "'I watched Hassan get raped,' I said to no one" (86).

Amir - “The words I’d carved on the tree trunk with Ali’s kitchen knife, Amir and Hassan: The Sultans of Kabul…I couldn’t stand looking at them now” (87). 

Amir - "'Get up!  Hit me'" (92)!

Amir - "Then Hassan did pick up a pomegranate.  [Hassan] walked toward me.  He opened it and crushed it against his own forehead. 'There,' he croaked, red dripping down his face like blood. 'Are you satisfied? Do you feel better?' He turned around and started down the hill" (93).

Baba - "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 the truth.  When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.  There is no act more wretched then stealing" (106).

Amir - "Baba was like the widower who remarries but can't let go of his dead wife" (129).

Baba - "'Amir is going to be a great writter'" (139).

Baba - “'Remember this,' Baba said, pointing at me, 'The man is a Pashtun to the root. He has nang and namoos'” (145). 

Amir - "'I want you to go khastegari. I want you to ask General Taheri for his daughter's hand'" (161).