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“Les enfants ne sont pas des livres de coloriage. Tu ne peux pas les peindre avec tes couleurs préférées. The kite runner”

Khaled Hosseini

“c'est une erreur d'affirmer qu'on peut enterrer le passé, il s'accroche tant et si bien qu'il remonte toujours à la surface.”

Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

The Kite Runner

“La beauté est un don du ciel énorme, immérité, accordé de manière aléatoire et stupide.”

Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed

“J'ai appris que le monde ne voit pas ce qu'il y a en vous, qu'il se moque complètement des espoirs, des rêves, des chagrins qui reposent cachés sous votre peau et vos os. C'est aussi simple que ça. Mes patients le savent, eux. Il constataient qu'une grande partie de ce qu'ils étaient, de ce qu'ils seraient ou de ce qu'ils pourraient être dépendait de la symétrie de leur ossature, de l'espace entre leurs yeux, de la longueur de leur menton, de leur nez, du fait qu'ils aient ou non un angle naso-frontal idéal ou pas.”

Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed

“Mais la bataille qui se livrait en lui se lisait sur son visage. Et sa peur aussi. Pas seulement celle qu'il éprouvait pour moi et ce qui risquait de m'arriver à 4500 kilomètres de chez nous. Mais aussi la peur qu'il avait de moi. Sa peur de me perdre. Sa peur devant mon absence, de réduire en pièces son coeur mis à nu et vulnérable si je le décidais, comme un doberman déchiquetant un chaton.”

Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini: Citations en anglais

“yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Kabul is… a thousand tragedies per square mile.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

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“Life is a train, get on board.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“Sad stories make good books”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“The finger cut, to save the hand.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

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

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Variante: Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion".
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.”

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Khaled Hosseini

“And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Cab Driver, p. 146
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“I found a sad little fairy
Beneath the shade of a paper tree.
I know a sad little fairy
Who was blown away by the wind one night.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“Blood is a powerful thing”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“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.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

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