The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

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

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

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

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

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.

Every individual ought to travel on his or her own destiny path.

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

One of the best years of my life was the very last one of my career. Playing for Rangers was my dream and it meant everything to my family.

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.