and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.