Fathers and children Flashcards
(4 cards)
1
Q
“I always felt like Baba hated me a little.
A
After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn’t I? The least I could have done was to have had the decency to have turned out a little more like him.”
2
Q
“I was going to win, and I was going to run that last kite.
A
Then I’d bring it home and show it to Baba. Show him once and for all that his son was worthy.”
3
Q
“I looked at Hassan. Baba’s other half.
A
The unentitled, unprivileged half. The half who had inherited what had been pure and noble in Baba. The half that, maybe, in the most secret recesses of his heart, Baba had thought of as his true son”
4
Q
“when spring comes,
A
it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting”
