Khedairi Quotes

#1. Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

Elizabeth Cox

#2. A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

Alaa Al Aswany

#3. A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

Michael Leunig

#4. Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.

Ravi Zacharias

#5. Wow, I'm surprised you remembered. When you left the bar you were crying and singing at the top of your lungs ' I got ninety-nine problems and the bitch is all of them.

Tara Sivec

#6. Until you change the way that you look at things,Those things will never change.

Pat Riley

#7. Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. Generals who can write always make me nervous.

Ben Bradlee

#9. I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

Anna Deavere Smith

#10. Worship is focus.

Beth Moore

#11. I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

Allison Williams

#12. I picked my way through the corpses to another Illyrian.
Then another. And another.
Some I knew. Some I didn't. Still the killing field stretched onward under the sky.
Mile after mile. A kingdom of the rotting dead.
And still I looked.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Aung San Suu Kyi