Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for…

“The boy sat in my room for fifteen minutes last night working up the nerve to go downstairs and talk to you. Then he…

— Nikki Godwin

“He had to wait in the sitting room for forty-five minutes. The room smelled of disinfectant and potpourri—he had the outlandish sensation he was…

— Scott Archer Jones

You can be stuck for two weeks on a problem, and then you get the right couple of people in a room, and in…

— Lee Unkrich

“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises. Then they…

— Khaled Hosseini

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

— Khaled Hosseini

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of…

— Khaled Hosseini

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late…

— Khaled Hosseini

Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that…

— Tony Blair

“In Our Villages - You killed thousands by thousands, after each thousand, You are killing another one thousand.”

— Abed Rahmani

“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as…

— Jake Wood

Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria,…

— Najibullah Quraishi

A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs,…

— Hilary Mantel