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21 " It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did. "
― Kazuo Ishiguro , The Buried Giant
22 " Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history. "
23 " Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician’s trickery? "
24 " Boatman, I’ve spoken honestly to you, and I hope it doesn’t cast your earlier judgement of us in doubt. For I suppose there’s some would hear my words and think our love flawed and broken. But God will know the slow tread of an old couple’s love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole. "
25 " Perhaps God’s so deeply ashamed of us, of something we did, that he’s wishing himself to forget. "
26 " What kind of god is it, sir, wishes wrong to go forgotten and unpunished? "
27 " Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds? "
28 " Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician’s trickery? I see how devoutly you wish it, for your old horrors to crumble as dust. Yet they await in the soil as white bones for men to uncover. "
29 " When the hour’s too late for rescue, it’s still early enough for revenge. "
30 " وقتی مسافرها از عزیزترین خاطراتشان حرف میزنند، بههیچوجه قادر نیستند حقیقت را پنهان کنند. زنوشوهری ممکن است ادعا کنند عاشق همدیگران، اما ما بهجای عشق در وجودشان بیزاری، خشم، یا حتی نفرت میبینیم. یا نوعی بیهودگی عمیق، گاهی فقط ترس از تنهایی و بس. "
31 " I was wondering, princess. Could it be our love would never have grown so strong down the years had the mist not robbed us the way it did? Perhaps it allowed old wounds to heal. "
32 " Be merciful and leave this place. Leave this country to rest in forgetfulness. "
33 " خدایی که بخشایش بیحدواندازه دارد، چه فایده دارد آقا؟ خدایان اجداد من قواعد و شیوههای خودشان را بهوضوح اعلام میکنند و وقتی ما قوانینشان را نقض میکنیم، بهشدت مارا مجازات میکنند. خدای شما به انسانها اجازه طمع ورزیدن، شهوت تصرف زمین و ریختن خون را میدهد، با این تصور که باکمی دعا همه گناهانشان بخشیده میشود و آمرزیده میشوند. "
34 " when travellers speak of their most cherished memories, it’s impossible for them to disguise the truth. A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more. Abiding love that has endured the years – that we see only rarely. "
35 " nothing and yet everything had passed between us. "
36 " [...] An old burial ground. And so it may be. I dare say, sir, our whole country is this way. A fine green valley. A pleasant copse in the springtime. Dig its soil, and not far beneath the daisies and buttercups come the dead. And I don't talk, sir, only of those who received Christian burial. Beneath our soil lie the remains of old slaughter. Horace and I, we've grown weary of it. Weary and we no longer young. "
37 " Can it be, husband, you still fear the mist’s fading, never mind the promise I made you? "
38 " The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises, "
39 " But such monsters were not cause for astonishment. People then would have regarded them as everyday hazards, and in those days there was so much else to worry about. How to get food out of the hard ground; how not to run out of firewood; how to stop the sickness that could kill a dozen pigs in a single day and produce green rashes on the cheeks of children. "
40 " We may pray to different gods, yet surely yours will bless this dragon as does mine.” Wistan "