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"Good old Hassan. Good Old reliable Hassan. He'd keep his promise..." (74).  

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"Good old Hassan. Good Old reliable Hassan. He'd keep his promise..." (74).  

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-Mika

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"I was reading to him, and suddenly i strayed from the written story. I pretended I was reading from the book, flipping pages regularly, but I had abandoned the text altogether, taken over the story and made up my own. Hassan, of course, was oblivious to this". (32)

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" He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again" (pg. 111)
- Emily

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"And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last" (71).

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"And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last" (71).

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-Mika

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"A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore" (91). - Kai 

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"A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore" (91). - Kai 

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"I closed my eyes, turned my face to the sun. Little shapes formed behind my eyelids, like hands playing shadows on the wall. They twisted, merged, formed a single image: Hassan's brown corduroy pants discarded on a pile of old bricks in the alley" (89)

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"I closed my eyes, turned my face to the sun. Little shapes formed behind my eyelids, like hands playing shadows on the wall. They twisted, merged, formed a single image: Hassan's brown corduroy pants discarded on a pile of old bricks in the alley" (89)

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-Miah

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"I wished i too has some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy. It wasn't fair. Hassan hadn't done anything to earn Baba's affections; he'd just been born with that stupid harelip." (50) 

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"I wished i too has some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy. It wasn't fair. Hassan hadn't done anything to earn Baba's affections; he'd just been born with that stupid harelip." (50) 

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- Emily H

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"Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them in with your favourite colors" (23).

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"Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them in with your favourite colors" (23).

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-Mika

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"He threw me a puzzled look. 'Do what?'' 'Eat dirt if I told you to,' I said. I knew I was being cruel, like when I'd taunt him if he didn't know some big word."(57)

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"He threw me a puzzled look. 'Do what?'' 'Eat dirt if I told you to,' I said. I knew I was being cruel, like when I'd taunt him if he didn't know some big word."(57)

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-Mark

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"he motioned me to hold his hat for him and I was glad to, because then everyone would see that he was my father, my baba." pg 16
Grace

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I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, and a thief. (pg. 111)
- Emily

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"He asked me to fetch Hassan too, but I lied and told him Hassan had the runs. I wanted Baba all to myself."

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 “It hurts to say that. But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie”

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 “It hurts to say that. But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie”

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- Nina G.

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"Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft (19).

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"Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft (19).

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-Mika

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"But he's not my friend! I almost blurted. He's my servant! Had I really thought like that? Of course I hadn't. I hadn't." (44)

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"But he's not my friend! I almost blurted. He's my servant! Had I really thought like that? Of course I hadn't. I hadn't." (44)

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- Emily H

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"Then I took a couple of the envelopes of cash from the pile of gifts and my watch, and tiptoed out." (110)

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"Then I took a couple of the envelopes of cash from the pile of gifts and my watch, and tiptoed out." (110)

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-Nina G.

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" I wished he'd give me the punishment I craved, so maybe I'd finally sleep at night" (pg. 98) - Emily

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" I wished he'd give me the punishment I craved, so maybe I'd finally sleep at night" (pg. 98) - Emily

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"I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan - the way he's stood up for me all those times in the past...In the end, I ran" (82).

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"I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan - the way he's stood up for me all those times in the past...In the end, I ran" (82).

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-Mika

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"My father took him in, he loved Ali like his own son. Forty years Ali's been with my family. Forty goddamn years. And you think I'm just going to throw him out?" (pg. 95)
- Emily

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"sitting criss-crossed, sunlight and shadows of pomegranate leaves dancing on his face, Hassan absently plucked blades of grass from the ground as I read him stories he couldn't read for himself." pg 30
Grace

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"Or, God forbid, what I feared most: guileless devotion? That, most of all, I couldn't bear to see" (83)

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"Or, God forbid, what I feared most: guileless devotion? That, most of all, I couldn't bear to see" (83)

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-Kai

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"I was afraid of getting hurt. That's what I told myself as I turned my back to the alley to Hassan. That's what I made myself believe." (82) - Olivia 

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"I was afraid of getting hurt. That's what I told myself as I turned my back to the alley to Hassan. That's what I made myself believe." (82) - Olivia 

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"Strangely, I was glad that someone knew me for who I really was; I was tired of pretending." (122)

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"Strangely, I was glad that someone knew me for who I really was; I was tired of pretending." (122)

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-Alec

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"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. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years." 

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"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. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years." 

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-jp

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"All I saw was the blue kite. All I smelled was victory. Salvation. Redemption." (36) -Cindy

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"Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words." (7) -Cindy

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"War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace."(62) -Cindy

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"Baba never missed Hassan's birthday. For a while, he used to ask Hassan what he wanted."(48)

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"Baba never missed Hassan's birthday. For a while, he used to ask Hassan what he wanted."(48)

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-Zack

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"We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the next morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly."(38)

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"We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the next morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly."(38)

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-Zack

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"When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth". (18)

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"When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth". (18)

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-Zack