Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
Khaled HosseiniIโll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and Iโll have one of my fits. Youโll see, Iโll swallow my tongue and die. Donโt leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. Iโll die if you go.
Khaled HosseiniAll stories I write are compulsive. Anything Iโve ever written was because I donโt have a choice. I write stories because I canโt wait to tell it, I canโt wait to see how it ends.
Khaled HosseiniI get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.
Khaled Hosseini