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Laila, p. 395
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Kontekst: 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!

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka And the Mountains Echoed

Źródło: And the Mountains Echoed

“For you, a thousand times over.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

(2) - Hassan, Amir
Źródło: The Kite Runner (2003)

“There is only one sin. and that is theft… when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“There is a way to be good again.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

(2) - Rahim Khan
Źródło: The Kite Runner (2003)

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner

“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka And the Mountains Echoed

Źródło: And the Mountains Echoed

“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Baba (115)
Źródło: The Kite Runner (2003)

“They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka And the Mountains Echoed

Źródło: And the Mountains Echoed

“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner

“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner

“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka And the Mountains Echoed

Źródło: And the Mountains Echoed

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Baba (58)
Źródło: The Kite Runner (2003)

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka And the Mountains Echoed

Źródło: And the Mountains Echoed

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner (2003)

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

Wariant: Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”

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Khaled Hosseini książka A Thousand Splendid Suns

Źródło: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”

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Khaled Hosseini książka Chłopiec z latawcem

Źródło: The Kite Runner