Quotes to identify the theme of betrayal in the kite runner?

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1. amomipais82
   

   Hi There,
   With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
   If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
   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.
   One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.
   I wondered if that was how 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.
   I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.
   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. (1)
   But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home. (56)
   It was Homaira and me against the world... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things. (99) Rahim Khan
   War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. - Baba (115)
   I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver. (109)
   You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is.. God help him. (275) Amir
   But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them. (319) Amir
   Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume k**b on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. (361)

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