Important quotes pt.2

Important quotes pt.2

1. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.” - Baba

   • Cowardice/standing up for what is right

2. “Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended.

   • Monarchy abolished- beginning of a time of political instability

3. “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba.”

   • Amir's attempt to justify what he knew was more than simple cowardice

4. “My body was broken—just how badly I wouldn’t find out until later—but I felt healed. Healed at last. I laughed.”

   • Psychological healing, relief of the guilt he has carried for years

5. "For you, a thousand times over," I heard myself say.

   • Devotional to Hassan

6. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting.

   • Beginning of emotional breakthrough/relationship with Sohrab- relationship that is vital in the redemption process