She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.