The Breadwinner Quotes
Parvana: [Last Lines]
Parvana: Raise your hearts, not your voice. It is rain that makes the flowers grow, not thunder.
Parvana: Raise your hearts, not your voice. It is rain that makes the flowers grow, not thunder.
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Parvana: What will you do by the sea?
Shauzia: I'd buy things and sell things like I do here but, for myself. There are people who go to the edge of the water to do nothing! They just sit there and they look at the sea with their sunglasses on, or swim about on floating tubes. So, I could sell them those things.
Shauzia: I'd buy things and sell things like I do here but, for myself. There are people who go to the edge of the water to do nothing! They just sit there and they look at the sea with their sunglasses on, or swim about on floating tubes. So, I could sell them those things.
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Parvana: We are a land whose people are its greatest treasure. We are at the edges of empires at war with each other. We are a fractured land in the claws of the Hindu Kush mountains, scorched by the fiery eyes of the northern deserts.
Nurullah: Black rubble earth against ice peaks. We are... Ariana, the land of the noble.
Nurullah: Black rubble earth against ice peaks. We are... Ariana, the land of the noble.
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Shauzia: Have you ever been to the sea?
Parvana: No.
Shauzia: Neither have I. But I have heard that the moon pulls the water onto the shore and then back out again. I want to see that.
Parvana: No.
Shauzia: Neither have I. But I have heard that the moon pulls the water onto the shore and then back out again. I want to see that.
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Sulayman: My name is Sulayman! My mother is a writer. My father is a teacher. And my sisters always fight each other. One day, I found a toy on the street. I picked it up. It exploded. I don't remember what happened after that because it was the end.
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Male Voice: [Voice over. On the screen is a row of women in burqas, seen through the mesh of a burqa]Women should not go outside and attract unnecessary attention! If a woman shows herself, she will be cursed by Islamic Sharia!
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Parvana: Artesh. I remembered my name. It's Artesh.
Shauzia: That's not really a name.
Parvana: It means fire.
Shauzia: I know what it means, but it's still not a name.
Parvana: Then it suits me fine.
Shauzia: That's not really a name.
Parvana: It means fire.
Shauzia: I know what it means, but it's still not a name.
Parvana: Then it suits me fine.
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Nurullah: [First Lines. The same lines are repeated later on in the film by Parvana when she is in the market on her own]
Nurullah: Anything written, anything read! Pashto and Dari. Beautiful items for sale.
Nurullah: Anything written, anything read! Pashto and Dari. Beautiful items for sale.
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Parvana: What about your father? Doesn't he depend on you?
Shauzia: I'm a good son, but he is not a good father.
Shauzia: I'm a good son, but he is not a good father.
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Fattema's Cousin: Son, daughter, which is it? Gather your things, we are leaving now!
Fattema: I am not leaving without Parvana! We have to wait!
Fattema's Cousin: Count yourself lucky I am taking you, old woman. The girl and the baby are of more worth.
Fattema: I am not leaving without Parvana! We have to wait!
Fattema's Cousin: Count yourself lucky I am taking you, old woman. The girl and the baby are of more worth.
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