Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"ألم يكن البشر دائمًا ميالين للحديث والقول؟ لهذا أُسمّي نفسي الآن ساحرة: الساحرة الشريرة للغرب، إن أردتَ أن تدرك مجدها الأتمّ. ما دام الناس سيصفونك بالمجنون على أي حال، فلِمَ لا تجني ثمار ذلك؟ إنه يحررك من الأعراف."
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"People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention."
"ألم يكن البشر دائمًا ميالين للحديث والقول؟ لهذا أُسمّي نفسي الآن ساحرة: الساحرة الشريرة للغرب، إن أردتَ أن تدرك مجدها الأتمّ. ما دام الناس سيصفونك بالمجنون على أي حال، فلِمَ لا تجني ثمار ذلك؟ إنه يحررك من الأعراف."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore."
"ليس في كتاب الغريمري ما يشرح كيفية خلع طاغية – لا شيء مفيد... لا شيء فيه يصف لماذا يمكن للرجال والنساء أن يصبحوا بهذا السوء. أو بهذا الروعة – إن كان ذلك يحدث بعد الآن."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew."
"يتجلى لك العالم، مرة تلو الأخرى، حالما تكون مستعدًا لرؤيته من جديد."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you wan"
"توقف عند الباب وقال: «الأسد يريد الشجاعة، ورجل الصفيح يريد قلبًا، والفزاعة تريد عقلًا. ودوروثي تريد العودة إلى بيتها. فماذا تريد أنت؟"
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one."
"قد لا أكون متيقنًا من وجود الوحوش، لكني أفضّل أن أحيا حياتي في ريب وشك على أن أقنع بوجودها من خلال تجربة حقيقية مع أحدها."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Her head had turned quickly away... Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence."
"أدارت رأسها بسرعة... لا لتخفي دموعها، بل لتلطّف حقيقة غيابها."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?” he asked. “I have already learned not to speak to strangers.” “Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond.” “I am disinclined to know you."
"هل تتوقع أن تتعلم شيئًا في شيز؟" سأل.
"لقد تعلمتُ بالفعل ألا أتحدث إلى الغرباء."
"إذن سأقدم نفسي، ولن نكون غرباء بعد الآن. أنا ديلاموند."
"أنا لا أميل إلى معرفتك."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out."
"ننجب الأطفال فقط حين نكون في ريعان الشباب، قبل أن ندرك مدى قسوة الحياة."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out."
"لا نُرزق بالأطفال إلا حين نكون في ريعان الشباب، قبل أن ندرك كم هي قاسيةٌ الحياة في نهاية المطاف."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face."
"لأن لا انسحاب من العالم يمكن أن يحجب ما هو بادٍ على وجهك."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense"
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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