The Kite Runner

When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

Lines had etched into his tanned face and creases framed his eyes, his mouth. I might as well have taken a knife and carved those lines myself.

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

Because the past claws its way out.

When you kill a man, you steal a life,” Baba said. “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. Do you see?”

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

And in the end the question that always came back to me was this: How could I, of all people, chastise someone for their past?

there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

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

For you a thousand times over,” Farid said.