Parvana, une enfance en Afghanistan (2017)

Saara Chaudry: Parvana

Quotes 

• Parvana : [Last Lines]  Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that makes the flowers grow, not thunder.

• 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 : 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.

• Parvana : What about your father? Doesn't he depend on you?

  Shauzia : I'm a good son, but he is not a good father.

• 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.

• Idrees : Hey! HEY YOU! What do you think you're doing?

  [shooed the dog away with his whip] 

  Razaq : Why is this girl shouting?

  Nurullah : She's only a child. She meant nothing by it.

  Idrees : She's drawing attention to herself!

  Razaq : She should be at home, not displaying herself in the market.

  Nurullah : I have no son at home, except an infant. I need my daughter to help me.

  Idrees : Stand up when we talk to you!

  Nurullah : I'm a...

  Idrees : I SAID, STAND UP!

  Nurullah : [Stands up along with her daughter] 

  Idrees : I know you.

  Nurullah : Yes, Idrees. I was your teacher, once. You were a good student.

  Idrees : You wasted my time, teaching me things of no worth. I have joined the Taliban! And now, I fight the enemies of Islam!

  Nurullah : Well, if I'm an enemy, then for my sins, God has taken my leg.

  Idrees : Are you making fun of me, old man?

  Nurullah : I lost my leg in the war. The war we fought together.

  Idrees : How old is the girl?

  Razaq : Idrees...

  Nurullah : She's a child!

  Idrees : She's old enough to marry! I'll be looking for a wife, soon.

  Nurullah : She's already been promised to someone.

  Idrees : Well, she should cover herself, properly!

  Nurullah : Maybe, you should stop looking at her.

  Idrees : What did you say to me?

  Nurullah : I said, "Stop looking at her"!

  Idrees : I CAN HAVE YOU KILLED!

  Razaq : Idrees...

  Idrees : YOU WATCH WHAT YOU SAY!

  Razaq : That's enough! Come on!

  [drags Idrees away from their sights] 

  Nurullah : [sighed; to Parvana]  Are you alright?

  Parvana : Yes, Baba.

  Nurullah : That's my girl. Let's go home, now.

• Parvana : But I'm not a boy!

  Shauzia : You're not a boy, you're not a girl.

• 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.