DJ Khaled Quotes

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

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

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

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.

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.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

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.

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 .

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.

You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

The finger cut, to save the hand.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.

Her eyes, walnut brown and shaded by fanned lashes, met mine. Held for a moment. Flew away.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

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.

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.