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.

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.