Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

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

There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir