Lisa Nguyen

“Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. 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. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner