Quotes About Sacrifice

The finger cut, to save the hand.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

Blood is a powerful thing

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

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.

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.

For you, a thousand times over" ? Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

Sólo te permiten ser así de feliz cuando están preparándose para llevarse algo de ti.

Por ti lo haria mil veces mas

Sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.

Tariq snapped the magazine back into his handgun. Do you have it in you? Laila said. To what? To use this thing. To kill with it. Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. For you, he said. I'd kill with it for you, Laila.

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one...Mariam wished she's been a better daughter to Nana. She wished she's understood then what she understood now about motherhood.

But they were wasting their time. Because Hassan stood with his arms wide open, smiling, waiting for the kite. And may God—if He exists, that is—strike me blind if the kite didn't just drop into his outstretched arms.

For you, a thousand times over (Bareh tu hazar dafa)

And so it was that, about a week later, we crossed a strip of warm, black tarmac and I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.

It was Homaira and me against the world. And I'll tell you this, Amir jan: In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Cesaret nedir haberin bile yok senin,dedi Eyüp Baba.Cesaret göstermek için bir ÅŸeyin tehlikede olmas? laz?m.Oysa ben buraya kaybedecek hiçbir ÅŸeyim olmadan geldim.

Kehidupannya yang diisi dengan kesetiaan tanpa pamrih melayang lepas dari tubuhnya seperti layang-layang tertiup angin yang sering kali dikejarnya.

Ä°yi ÅŸeylerin hiçbiri bedava deÄŸildi.Sevgi bile.Her ÅŸeyin bedelini ödüyordum.Ve eÄŸer yoksulsan,elindeki tek nakit ,kah?r çekmekti.

Entonces ahuecó las manos junto a la boca y exclamó: —¡Por ti lo haría mil veces más!

She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be.

I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal's eyes. Absurdly, I imagine the animal understands. I imagined the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose.