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Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.
I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.
If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.
The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.
The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.
Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.
Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.
i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
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 wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.