Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious.

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

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

some stories don't need telling