I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

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

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.