There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world. Khaled Hosseini More Quotes by Khaled Hosseini More Quotes From Khaled Hosseini I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. Khaled Hosseini boring reader If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar. Khaled Hosseini girl jars america I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me. Khaled Hosseini used praying years She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all . Khaled Hosseini ends fire looks At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , " he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17) Khaled Hosseini girl sound heart My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children. Khaled Hosseini book children people sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor. Khaled Hosseini rocks scary powerful Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies. Khaled Hosseini telling-the-truth hurt lying It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names. Khaled Hosseini cancer satan names Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. Khaled Hosseini kabul peaceful hippie Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval. Khaled Hosseini medieval conservative people I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege. Khaled Hosseini doctors real people The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read. Khaled Hosseini aspiring-writers credibility writing In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself. Khaled Hosseini cousin uncles brother I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID. Khaled Hosseini knives flames father Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country. Khaled Hosseini life country children The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. Khaled Hosseini surprise-me surprise book When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that. Khaled Hosseini realizing mean people On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts. Khaled Hosseini kings heart men I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home Khaled Hosseini real self home
