[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

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.

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.