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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

When guilt leads to good.

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

Regret ... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.

Was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

It was a long time ago , but people make mistakes when they think they can barry the past . It can simlpy flow to the surface .

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

It's a dangerous business, making promises to kids.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night. He

But time, it is like a charm. You never have as much as you think.

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.

for you ,thousand times over

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

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.

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Happiness like this is frightening ... they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you

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

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

But the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn't.

For you, a thousand times over

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

It wasn't meant to be, Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.

That was a long time ago, but 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.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

These random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

You can not stop you from being who you are.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.

She was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.
She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.

You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a littele

Come. There is a way to be good again...

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.

It is the creators of the harami (bastards) who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born.

felt as though I had been the one cuckolded.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings.

The truth was no. The lie was yes. I settled for something in between. "I don't know.

It was the way Nana uttered the word - not so much saying it as spitting it at her - that made Mariam feel the full sting of it.

The finger cut, to save the hand.

I cringed a little at the position of power i'd been granted, and all because I had won at the genetic lottery that had determined my sex.

From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila

We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book.

To this day, I find it hard to gaze directly at people like Hassan, people who mean every word they say.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

field. I'll meet you there.

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there."
"Yes it was." Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated ...

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

I lay there drifting, wondering, imagining...

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

How glorious it was to know that her love for it already dwarfed anything she had ever felt as a human being

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Takes a donkey to know a donkey.

My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last.

I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.

Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only.

Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. All

Out beyond ideas

Thought, She's your wife. My mother, we buried. But he knew to stifle those words before they came

For you, a thousand times over
(Bareh tu hazar dafa)

There is a way to be good again...

Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

Who rebels with mathematics?

there is a field.

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.

Thats the thing about people who mean every thing they say. They think everybody else does too.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ...

I was the lucky one because I was protected by my youth. Je pouvais oublier. I still had the luxury of forgetting. He did not.

How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!

It always hurts more to have and loose than not to have in first place

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

Blood is a powerful thing

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand ...