I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

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

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And