Stephen King, The Green Mile
"...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt"
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"...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt"
"...بعضه في تصرّفه كأنه ملك القاذورات المتوّج على جبل الروث، لكن الأغلب أنه ماكرٌ ويستلذّ بالأذى"
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself."
"عندما تقضي حياتك في رعاية رجال من طين، لا يسعك إلا أن تتلطخ قليلاً."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many lived it for years, with no apparent ill effects."
"كان الانعطاف يسارًا يعني الحياة – إنْ سَمَّيْتَ ما يجري في ساحة التمارين اللاهبة حياةً، وكثيرون فعلوا؛ كثيرون عاشوها لسنوات، دون آثار سلبية ظاهرة."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."
"الممر الواسع الذي يشق منتصف الجناح "إي" كان مفروشًا بمشمع بلون الليمون العتيق الباهت، ولذا فما كان يُعرف في السجون الأخرى بالميل الأخير، كان يُدعى في كولد ماونتن بالميل الأخضر."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."
"كان السجناء يتندرون على الكرسي، على نحو ما يفعل الناس دائمًا حين يمزحون حول أشياء تخيفهم ولكن لا مفر منها."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"…but I guess you can never wash anything completely away, not from this dark glass of a world, and now I saw them again, a tangle of names overlying one another, and looking at them was like listening to the dead speak and sing and cry out for mercy."
"...لكنني أظن أن المرء لا يستطيع أبدًا أن يمحو شيئًا تمامًا، لا من مرآة هذا العالم المظلمة، وها أنا أراهم من جديد، تشابك أسماء تتراكب الواحدة فوق الأخرى، وكان النظر إليهم كالإصغاء إلى الموتى وهم يتحدثون ويغنون ويصرخون طلبًا للرحمة."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true."
"أحيانًا، تكون الجمرات خيرًا من نار المخيم. إنه لأمر غريب، ولكنه حقيقي."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land."
"الجميع— سودًا وبيضًا على حد سواء— يظنون أن الحال سيكون أفضل خلف التلة القادمة."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be"
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
"There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about."
Stephen King, The Green Mile
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