Everybody's damaged by something.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Everyone's got a different story.

... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.

I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?

This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should, ” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality, looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

Weakness never got anyone anywhere.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.