Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own."
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"I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own."
"أحتاج فتىً يفكر برأسه الكبير، لا بصغيره. وبما أنهم لا وجود لهم، فقد صنعتُ خاصتي."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy."
"من كان يظن أن الاستماع إلى نوم رجل قد يكون أعمق بكثير من مضاجعته."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient."
"سأخرج الليلة ذاتها من جديد، بصواريخي وفتائلي. سأنسفهم مباشرة من أسِرّتهم الوثيرة. سأقتلع أسطح بيوتهم. سأنسف الليل الأسود البائس إربًا. لن أتوقف. فربما أكون مجنونًا، لكنني لن أكون أبدًا مُريحًا."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius."
"كلما ازدادت أذواقنا غموضًا، عظم الدليل على عبقريتنا."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm."
"لا يحتاج الجميلون إلى معاطف؛ فالهالات التي تحيط بهم كفيلة بأن تدفئهم."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts."
"وروبسبيير، النزيه الذي لا يفسد، والذي أحبنا لدرجة أنه قطع رؤوسنا كي لا نُثقل بكثرة الأفكار."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?"
"لم تكن السعادة تجدي نفعًا لي. بل كان وجع القلب هو ما ملأ كيسي. فأي رجل سعيد يحتاج إلى شكسبير؟"
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm."
"الجميلون لا يحتاجون إلى معاطف؛ هالاتهم تكفيهم دفئًا."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure."
"تلفّ خصرها حزامٌ عريض، يتوسّطه إبزيمٌ برّاق نُقِش عليه "PRADA"، وهي كلمة إيطالية تعني "انعدام الأمان"."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Because I'm on the phone, Mom!"Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that"Ahmadinejad."Oh, my goodness! What is he saying"That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going."Don't be so fresh, young man!"Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell."Fall back, solider. Over and out."
"لأنني أتحدث في الهاتف يا أمي!"
"تلهو مع أصدقائك مرة أخرى! من هذا؟"
"أحمدي نجاد."
"يا إلهي! ماذا يقول؟"
"يقول إنه يريد رؤية جيزي في بيكون الليلة. بوتين ذاهب أيضاً. لقد اشترى تذكرة من كيم جونغ إيل بسعر مرتفع. كل العصابات ذاهبة."
"لا تكن وقحاً هكذا أيها الشاب!"
"يجب أن أذهب،" يقول لي. "قوات العدو أسقطت قنبلة أمومية."
"تراجع أيها الجندي. انتهى الإرسال."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal. But I do not. I do not."
"تستمر هذه الدنيا، غبية ووحشية.
أما أنا فلا.
أنا لا أستمر."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either"
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only Silence. Indifference."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
"Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small."
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
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