The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it’s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it’s going to work. It’s astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

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.