Passage 1: “…. Grateful that he’s healthy,” Rahim Khan was saying.
“I know, I know. But he’s always buried in those books or shuffling around the house like he’s lost in some dream.”
Rahim Khan laughed. “ Children aren’t like coloring books. You don’t get to fill them in with your favorite colors.” (page 21)
Passage 2: I thought about Hassan’s dream, the one about us swimming in the lake. There is no monster, he’d say, just water. Except he’d been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake. It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles, dragged him to the murky bottom. I was that monster. (page 86)
Passage 3: Baba believed Carter had unwittingly done more for communism than Leonid Brezhnev. “ He’s not fit to run this country. It’s like putting a boy who can’t ride a bike behind the wheel of a brand new Cadillac.” (page 126)
Passage 4: Baba was like a widower who remarries but can’t let go of his dead wife. He missed the sugarcane fields of Jalalabad and the gardens of Paghman. He missed the people milling in and out of his house. (page 129)
These passages were taken from Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner”