Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.