You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too.
你不能爱一个无所畏惧的人。
Whatever's going on, you should deal with it before too long. Take care not to let these things fester. Time will only make it worse.
不管是什么事情,你应该尽快处理好,避免事态恶化,时间只会让事情变得更糟。
I dream that my son will grow up to be a good person, a free person. I dream that someday you will return to revisit the land of our childhood. I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets again... and kites will fly in the skies!
我梦到了我的儿子会成长为一个好人,一个拥有自由意志的人;我梦到了有一天,你会回到我们童年玩耍的这片土地,故地重游;我梦到了鲜花再次在街道上盛开……天空满是色彩斑斓的风筝!
I would always feel guilty about it later. So I'd try to make up for it.
我之后总会感到内疚,所以我努力弥补。
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
孩子不是图画练习册,你不能随心所欲地涂上你喜欢的颜色。
Nothing that you remember has survived. Better to forget.
你记忆中的一切都不在了,还是忘掉比较好。
There is a way to be good again. I looked up at those twin kites. I thought about Hassan. Thought about Baba. Ali. Kabul. I thought of the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came and changed everything. And made me what I am today.
那儿有再次成为好人的路。我抬眼看看那比翼齐飞的风筝。我忆起哈桑。我缅怀爸爸。我想到阿里。我思念喀布尔。直到1975年的冬天来临,改变了一切,也造就了我今天的样子。
A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
一个不能保护自己的男孩,长大后什么东西都保护不了。
It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
得到了再失去,总是比从来就没有得到更伤人。
Time is a greedy thing—sometimes it steals the details for itself.
时间很贪婪,有时候,他会独自吞噬所有的细节。
You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it.
你永远是游客,只是你不知道罢了。
That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how a thousand times over.
那是很久以前的事了,但我明白过去的事情并非如人们所说,可以埋葬,因为往事会自行爬上来。
For you, a thousand times over.
为你,千千万万遍。
这些语录体现了小说中的核心主题和情感,包括爱、恐惧、罪恶、救赎和成长。希望这些对照对你有所帮助。