i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.