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Redemption

"The man who hurt you, I knew him from many years ago," I said. "I guess you figured that out that from the conversation he and I had. He...he tried to hurt me once when I was your age, but your father saved me. Your father was very brave and he was always rescuing me from trouble, standing up for me. So one day the bad man hurt your father instead. He hurt him in a very bad way, and I ...I couldn't save your father the way he had saved me."   From chapter 24.

Discrimination 

"While you’re busy knitting sweaters, my dear, I have to deal with the community’s perception of our family. People will ask. They will want to know why there is a Hazara boy living with our daughter. What do I tell them?"   From chapter 25.

Loyalty & Devotion 

"Sometimes, up in those trees, I talked Hassan into firing walnuts with his slingshot at the neighbour’s one-eyed German shepherd. Hassan never wanted to, but if I asked, really asked, he wouldn't deny me. Hassan never denied me anything."

For you a thousand times over.