Khaled Hosseini: Frasi in inglese

Khaled Hosseini è scrittore e medico statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“After all, life is not a Hindi movie.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

Origine: The Kite Runner

“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

Origine: The Kite Runner

“She would grab whatever she could -a look, a whisper, a moan - to salvage from perishing, to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Mille splendidi soli

Origine: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

Origine: The Kite Runner

“Awake. And alone with demons of my own.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

Origine: The Kite Runner

“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro E l'eco rispose

Origine: And the Mountains Echoed

“Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro E l'eco rispose

Origine: And the Mountains Echoed

“Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn’t look forced. And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

Origine: The Kite Runner

“The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

Variante: The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Origine: The Kite Runner

“I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

Origine: The Kite Runner (2003), P. 391

“Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn't breathe God would grant her another day with Jalil.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Mille splendidi soli

Origine: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

Variante: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Origine: The Kite Runner

“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro E l'eco rispose

Origine: And the Mountains Echoed

“Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.”
“Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro E l'eco rispose

Origine: And the Mountains Echoed

“you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro E l'eco rispose

Origine: And the Mountains Echoed

“That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”

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Khaled Hosseini libro Il cacciatore di aquiloni

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Variante: It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
Origine: The Kite Runner (2003)

“It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.”

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