Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"حسناً يا سيد توماس، مع أنني أؤمن بالتعليم، لا يسعني بضمير حي أن أنصح بمسيرة أكاديمية إلا في العلوم البحتة. أما بيئة العمل، فما تبقى من الأوساط الأكاديمية هو مستنقع آسِنٌ من اللاعقلانية والتحريض على الكراهية والحسد والأنانية. سأرحل فور حصولي على مستحقات تقاعدي بعد خمسة وعشرين عاماً، ثم سأتفرغ لكتابة الروايات..."
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"Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels..."
"حسناً يا سيد توماس، مع أنني أؤمن بالتعليم، لا يسعني بضمير حي أن أنصح بمسيرة أكاديمية إلا في العلوم البحتة. أما بيئة العمل، فما تبقى من الأوساط الأكاديمية هو مستنقع آسِنٌ من اللاعقلانية والتحريض على الكراهية والحسد والأنانية. سأرحل فور حصولي على مستحقات تقاعدي بعد خمسة وعشرين عاماً، ثم سأتفرغ لكتابة الروايات..."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope."
"امنح السرد نبرة أخف مما تظن أنه يستحق، يا بني، أخف مما تطيق أن تمنحه إياها،" أوصاني قبل أن أشرع في الكتابة، "لأنك لن تجد حقيقة الحياة في الكآبة، بل في الأمل وحده."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished. What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?"
"تعلّمتُ من كل هؤلاء الأصدقاء بعض الإحصائيات التي كنتُ أفضّل ألا أعرفها. واحد وأربعون شخصًا في المركز التجاري أصيبوا بجروح. تسعة عشر ماتوا. قال الجميع إنها معجزة أن تسعة عشر فقط لقوا حتفهم. ما الذي أصاب عالمنا حتى يبدو موت تسعة عشر شخصًا نوعًا من المعجزة؟"
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown."
"لو احتضنت الحياة بكل صراعاتها احتضانًا كاملًا، لانهارت."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved."
"لم أطلب أن أولد.
فقط لأُحَبّ."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable."
"يُخيفني البشر أكثر من أي شيء آخر، فقد أدركتُ تمام الإدراك مدى الوحشية التي تستطيعها النفس البشرية."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded."
"ليس ثمة ما هو أسوأ من أن تكون وحيدًا في مساء اليوم الذي انفجرت فيه بقرتك."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope."
"المثابرة مستحيلة إن لم نسمح لأنفسنا بالأمل."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"Three more words. Be happy. Persevere."
"ثلاث كلمات أخرى. كن سعيدًا. ثابر."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"We ate food that wasn't healthy. We let dirty dishes stack up in the sink. We slept too much. We talked about everything, everything but the slaughter at the mall. Our past, our future. We planned. We dreamed."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness. We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
"When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise."
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
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