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Reading & Creating Texts – Unit 1
By Khaled Hosseini
A list of important quotes in chronological order Write in the space provided the name of the character who said the particular quote.
"It was my past of unatoned sins" (P.1) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "There's a way to be good again." (P.2) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Ali, a man who had memorised the Koran." (P.7) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "With me as the glaring exception, my father moulded the world around him to his liking." (P.14) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "... there's only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft." (P.16) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "If there's a God out there, then I would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch and eating pork." (P.16) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "a boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything." (P.20) _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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"... in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend." (p.22) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Hassan had already washed up... prepared my breakfast... all neatly placed on the dining table" (P.23) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "My favourite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word that he didn't know. I'd tease him, expose his ignorance." (P.24) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "But despite his illiteracy... I saw he was far better at solving them [riddles] than I was." (P.24) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It was always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood." (P.35) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "But he's not my friend! I almost blurted out. He's my servant!" (P.36) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules." (P.45) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "I'd taunt him if he didn't know some big word... kind of like when we used to play insect torture." (P.47) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "If I was going to toy with him and challenge his loyalty, then he'd toy with me, test my integrity." (P.48) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "For you [Amir] a thousand times over." (P.59) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "In Afghanistan, owning anything American, especially if it wasn't second hand, was a sign of wealth." (P.61) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Good old reliable Hassan. He'd kept his promise and run that last kite for me." (P.61) _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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"Because to him [Amir], you're nothing but an ugly pet..." (P.64) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "I [Amir] ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of what he [Assef] would do to me, I was afraid of getting hurt. That's what I told myself as I turned my back to the alley, to Hassan." (P.68) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "I watched Hassan get raped... a part of me was hoping someone would wake me up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it." (P.75) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Everywhere I turned, I saw signs of his loyalty, his goddamn unwavering loyalty." (P.78) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Hassan's not going anywhere... He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!" (P.78) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "I wished he'd give me the punishment I craved, so maybe I'd finally sleep at night." (P.81) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ".. .we all knew that Hassan never lied." (P.91) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Then I [Amir] understood: this was Hassan's final sacrifice for me." (P.91) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "This was Hassan's final sacrifice for me. If he'd said no, Baba would have believed him because we all knew that Hassan never lied... Hassan knew. He knew I'd seem everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time." (P.91) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Tell him I'll take a thousand bullets before I let this indecency take place." (P.101) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "For me, America was a place to bury my memories." (P.112) _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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"I didn't want to sacrifice for Baba anymore. The last time I had done that, I had damned myself." (P.117) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "And she [Soraya] would bear the brunt of that poison, not me – I was fully aware of the Afghan double standard that favoured my gender." (P.128) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with." (P.144) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Baba had wrestled bears his whole life." (P.152) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "In the end, a bear had come that he couldn't beat. But even then, he had lost on his own terms." (P.152) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "a big part of the reason I didn't care about Soraya's past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret." (P.157) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "They were catching up on all the lost years, I suppose. As far as I know he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling." (P.185) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood. If you do you will find an old faithful Mend waiting for you." (P.191) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ "we had both betrayed the people who would have given their lives for us." (P.197) _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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