The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

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

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.