There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.

There is a way to be good again.

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.