Hassan -
*For you, a thousand times over.

Amir's father -
* verdict on sin - There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
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 to the truth.
When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing.
* Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Rahim Khan -
* There is a way to be good again.
* Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Amir -
* In ref. to Hassan
- If I was going to toy with him and challenge his loyalty, then he'd toy with me, test my integrity.
- He was so goddamn pure, you always felt like a phony around him.
* In ref. to father -
- Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paperthin slice of intersection between those spheres.
- I'd write him a hundred stories if I thought he'd read one.
Maybe he'd call me Amir jan like Rahim Khan did. And maybe, just maybe, I would finally be pardoned for killing my mother.
* I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running was that 'Nothing was free in this world'. You had to pay a price whether its fair or not.
* There is only what you do and what you don't do.
* Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence.
* Perspective is a luxury when your head is constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
* Forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
* Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life. Silence is pushing the OFF button. Shutting it down. All of it.

yelda - longest night of the year. Compared to : The starless night tormented lovers kept vigil, enduring the endless dark, waiting for the sun to rise and bring with it their loved one.

These are just few samples. I found lots of them in the book - which ripped my heart. Cried over several passages in the book. I know sounds crazy. I keep telling Raghu, when I like a book or a movie, I need to feel the characters. I'll get so involved that I'm amidst them as a onlooker. And the characters in this book without doubt moved me.