Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"لا يسعنا أن نغض الطرف،" قالت لها الآنسة وولف، "علينا أن نضطلع بمهمتنا، وعلينا أن نشهد." "ماذا يعني ذلك؟" تساءلت أورسولا. "يعني ذلك،" قالت الآنسة وولف، "أن علينا أن نتذكر هؤلاء الناس حين نبلغ بر الأمان في غدنا."
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"We cannot turn away,” Miss Woolf told her, “we must get on with our job and we must bear witness.” What did that mean, Ursula wondered. “It means,” Miss Woolf said, “that we must remember these people when we are safely in the futu"
"لا يسعنا أن نغض الطرف،" قالت لها الآنسة وولف، "علينا أن نضطلع بمهمتنا، وعلينا أن نشهد."
"ماذا يعني ذلك؟" تساءلت أورسولا.
"يعني ذلك،" قالت الآنسة وولف، "أن علينا أن نتذكر هؤلاء الناس حين نبلغ بر الأمان في غدنا."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being."
"لم تكن الحياة تدور حول "أن تصبح"، أليس كذلك؟ بل كانت تدور حول "أن تكون"."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?"
"كم مرة سيخيب ظنك في اليوم لو كنتِ زوجة له، تساءلت أورسولا؟"
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.)"
"كانت شديدة الولع برالف. لم تكن تطاردها لوعة الحب كما يحدث لبعض النساء. مع كرايتون، كانت فكرة الحب تداعبها بلا انقطاع، أما مع رالف، فكان الأمر أكثر مباشرة. مرة أخرى، لم يكن ذلك حبًا، بل أشبه بالمشاعر التي تكنها لكلبك المفضل (وكلا، لم تكن لتفوه بمثل هذا القول أمامه قط. فبعض الناس، بل كثير منهم، لم يدركوا عمق الارتباط الذي يمكن أن ينشأ بين المرء وكلبه)."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements."
"هذا هو كل ما في الأمر بالنسبة للتقدم. ما أسرع ما يمكن للحضارة أن تنحلّ إلى عناصرها الأكثر قبحًا."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness"
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two," she said."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was - wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind?"
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"The mind is a fathomless mystery."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
"I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed."
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
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