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"I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Tahiri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them. (165)"

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"It's done, then. I'm 18 and alone. I have no one left in the world. Baba's dead and now I have to bury him. Where do I bury him? Where do I go after that?" (116)

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"My father is still adjusting to life in America," I said by way of explanation."(128)

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"My father is still adjusting to life in America," I said by way of explanation."(128)

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"Their sons go out to nigh clubs looking for meat and get their girlfriends pregnant, they have kids out of wedlock and no one says a goddamn thing. Oh, they're just men having fun! I make one mistake and suddenly everyone is talking nang and namoos, and I have to have my face rubbed in for the rest of my life."(179)

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"Then Baba rolled his head towards me, 'I wish Hasaan had been with us today,' he said. A pair of steel hands closed around my windpipe at the sound of Hasaan's name. I rolled down the window. Waited for the steel hands to loosen their grip." (133-134)

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" I gave the notebook back to Soraya and left the room. Baba hated it when I cried" (172).

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"Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been 'Baba's son.' Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own." (174)

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"But I think a big part of the reason I didn't care about Soraya's past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret" (180).

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"But I would stand my ground, I decided. I didn't want to sacrifice for Baba anymore. The last time I had done that, I had damned myself "(Hosseini 135).

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"My eyes returned to our suitcases. They made me sad for Baba. After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life: one disappointing son and two suitcases." (124)

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"In the end, a bear had come that he couldn't best" (174).

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"Ill come back with your morphine and a glass of water, Kaka jan," Soraya said.
"Not tonight," he said. "There is no pain tonight."
"Okay" she said. She pulled up his blanket. We closed the door.
Baba never woke up.

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"We all agreed that Soraya and I would forgo the Shirini-Khori. Everyone knew the reason, so no one had to actually say it: that Baba didn't have months to live." (169)

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"He had always known. Come. There is a way to be good again, Rahim Khan had said on the phone just before hanging up. Said it in passing, almost as an afterthought. A way to be good again." (192).

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"Baba's was called "Oat Cell Carcinoma." Advanced. Inoperable.(156).

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"I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with. I opened my mouth and almost told her how I'd betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali. But I didn't. I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them," (165).

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