People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

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.