Blood is a powerful thing

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

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.

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