Khaled Hosseini citáty a výroky
Khaled Hosseini: Citáty anglicky
“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
Zdroj: The Kite Runner
Laila, p. 395
Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Zdroj: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Kontext: 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
Zdroj: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
Zdroj: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
Zdroj: The Kite Runner
“There is a way to be good again.”
(2) - Rahim Khan
Zdroj: The Kite Runner (2003)
“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
Zdroj: The Kite Runner
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
Zdroj: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
Baba (115)
Zdroj: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
Zdroj: The Kite Runner
“All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.”
Zdroj: The Kite Runner
“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”
Zdroj: And the Mountains Echoed
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Baba (58)
Zdroj: The Kite Runner (2003)
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
Zdroj: 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.”
Varianta: Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
Zdroj: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”
Zdroj: A Thousand Splendid Suns
