We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.