Khaled Hosseini citations (231 citations, Page 4)

Variante: God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Source: The Kite Runner

“No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

“America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“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.”

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Khaled Hosseini

“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied butby the turbulence that washes over her.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Laila, p. 250
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“You can not stop you from being who you are.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“People learned to live with the
most unimaginable things.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“But then it passed, as all things do.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.”

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Khaled Hosseini

Source: The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film

“Regret…when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Jalil's letter
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“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.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“You’re not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“And one more thing… You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul

Source: The Kite Runner

“Look at me, Mariam.'
Reluctantly, Mariam did.
Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

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Khaled Hosseini livre A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

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