Khaled 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
“There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner (2003), Ch. 2
Contexte: Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words.Mine was Baba.His was Amir. My name.Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975—and all that followed—was already laid in those first words (11).
“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“It was you Nabi.
It was always you.
Didn't you know?”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Give sustenance, Allah.
Give sustenance to me.”
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Variante: When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
Contexte: There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great”
Source: The Kite Runner
“If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“I guess some stories do not need telling.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“You know."
"Know what?"
"That I only have eyes for you.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“After all, life is not a Hindi movie.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Awake. And alone with demons of my own.”
Source: The Kite Runner
Variante: The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Source: The Kite Runner
