I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. Khaled Hosseini More Quotes by Khaled Hosseini More Quotes From Khaled Hosseini I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty Khaled Hosseini hassanamericason Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor. Khaled Hosseini officemenamerica these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them. Khaled Hosseini unkindmoments People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair. Khaled Hosseini givenchildrenpeople All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. Khaled Hosseini shovelsholessaid I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in. Khaled Hosseini defyingknows I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great Khaled Hosseini optimismmadeamerica But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope. Khaled Hosseini wisedreamchildren The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip. Khaled Hosseini impactcuttingtwo He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. Khaled Hosseini betrayedlastsdone The finger cut, to save the hand. Khaled Hosseini fingerscuttinghands There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight. Khaled Hosseini floatingtonightreality You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next. Khaled Hosseini shoesone-dayorder We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area. Khaled Hosseini empoweringgivingchildren How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai after seeing that film? The same thing with the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini mumbaiplightpeople Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, where we could dedicate an entire evening focused on the global refugee crisis, focused primarily on Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini refugee-crisisissuescommunity It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner]. Khaled Hosseini love-istwobook The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. Khaled Hosseini plotstoriescharacter If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community. Khaled Hosseini communitybookthinking We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini awardsjobschildren
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