I will follow you to the ends of the world.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

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

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.