A review by soosoyi
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

4.0

'That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.'

'You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too.'

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."

'When I was older, I read in my poetry books that yelda was the starless night tormented lovers kept vigil, enduring the endless dark, waiting for the sun to rise and bring with it their loved one.'

"And sometimes the dead are luckier,"

"'The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.' Such grace, such dignity, such tragedy."