Œuvres
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled HosseiniLes Cerfs-volants de Kaboul
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini citations célèbres
“La beauté est un don du ciel énorme, immérité, accordé de manière aléatoire et stupide.”
And the Mountains Echoed
And the Mountains Echoed
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini: Citations en anglais
“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Laila, p. 395
Variante: Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Contexte: Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
“For you, a thousand times over.”
(2) - Hassan, Amir
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“There is a way to be good again.”
(2) - Rahim Khan
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
Baba (115)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Baba (58)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana”
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
Variante: Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
