As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.