she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.