Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.