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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working.
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
I'm so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other.
There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
You don't need a cheerleader. That's the worst thing that can happen to you.
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
You have to be able to interact with people whose politics you disagree with.
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.
A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
I do live with the very real possibility that we don't have endless stories to tell.
Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.
All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.
Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.
But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her
Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.