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.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything