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"... 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."

"The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. Ando so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. Except that wasn't all. The real fun began when a kite was cut. That was when the kite runners came in, those kids who chased the wind-blown kite drifting through the neighborhoods until it came spiraling down (...). The chase got pretty fierce; hordes of kite runners swarmed the streets, shoved past each other like those people from Spain I'd read about once, the ones who ran from the bulls."

Khaled Hosseini, The kite runner.