The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
Khaled HosseiniYou don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
Khaled HosseiniIf I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head
Khaled HosseiniIn 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.
Khaled Hosseini