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.

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

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.

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

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.