

“Being the other woman is a huge turn-on, there’s no point denying it: you’re the one he can’t help but betray his wife for, even though he loves her. That’s just how irresistible you are.”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train

“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting but never joining. In short, an outsider.”
― The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
― The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land . . . it surprised me . . . I thought I had forgotten about this land. But I hadn’t. . . . Maybe Afghanistan hadn’t forgotten me either.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner

“I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.”
― I Am Pilgrim
― I Am Pilgrim
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