"People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine."
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"When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color."
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"But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her"
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"It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under."
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"At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent."
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"So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one."
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"Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly."
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"You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does."
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"I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be."
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"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."
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"these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."
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"How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai after seeing that film? The same thing with the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns."
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"In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity."
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"He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time."
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"But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope."
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"There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc."
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"I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history."
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"For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had managed to live in peaceful anonymity for decades, that the history of the Afghans in the twentieth century has been largely pacific and harmonious."
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"Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s."
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"There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry."
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