You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

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