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Hay hombres tan ocupados en acongojarse por el otro mundo que no han aprendido a vivir en este.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe

Hava güneşliyse durum o kadar kötü sayılmazdı, ama iki kez -tam iki kez- biz mezarlıktayken yağmur başladı. Korkunçtu. Yağmur yağıyordu çocuğun başındaki mezar taşına, karnının üstündeki çimlere. Her yer sırılsıklam olmuştu. Mezarlığı ziyarete gelen herkes deli gibi arabalarına koşmaya başladı. İşte bunu görünce deli oluyordum neredeyse. Bütün ziyaretçiler arabalarına atlayıp, radyolarını açabilirler, yemeğe bir yerlere gidebilirlerdi. Buna dayanamamıştım.

black as Tom Robinson’s skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you. You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women—black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

Atticus said professional people were poor because the farmers were poor. As Maycomb County was farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.

I tell you,' said Augustine, 'if there is anything that is revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class become the upper one.

He has something we don't have, he has the word.

Onlar gittikten sonra, bağış için yalnızca on kağıt verdiğim için üzülmeye başladım. Ama, bizim Sally Hayes'le matineye gidecektik. Biletler için filan köşeye biraz para ayırmam gerekti. Ama yine de üzüldüm. Lanet para. Sonunda hep böyle üzülür durursunuz.

Nothing flows from her, vile rabble.

And so they went, down the row of laughing women, around the diningroom, refilling coffee cups, dishing out goodies as though their only regret was the temporary domestic disaster of losing Calpurnia.

Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que la batalla está perdida de antemano, lo intenta a pesar de todo y lucha hasta el final pase lo que pase.

We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape.

Do you know what it came from? said Luke. Mayday? It's French, he said. From m'aidez. Help me.

اما من قبل از اینکه با دیگران بتونم زندگی کنم، باید بتونم با خودم زندگی کنم. وجدان آدم تنها چیزیه که نمی‌تونه تابع نظر اکثریت باشه.

Do you defend niggers, Atticus? I asked him that evening. Of course I do. Don’t say nigger, Scout. That’s common.

You just came out of the hospital ten days ago, Milo reminded him reprovingly. You can’t keep running into the hospital every time something happens you don’t like. No, the best thing to do is fly the missions. It’s our duty.

Today, we could only look and try to believe the sight of our eyes. We pulled the heavy curtains from the windows and we saw that the rooms were small, and we thought that not more than twelve men could have lived here. We thought it strange that men had been permitted to build a house for only twelve.Never had we seen rooms so full of light. The sunrays danced upon colors, colors, more colors than we thought possible, we who had seen no houses save the white ones, the brown ones and the grey. There were great pieces of glass on the walls, but it was not glass, for when we looked upon it we saw our own bodies and all the things behind us, as on the face of a lake. There were strange things which we had never seen and the use of which we do not know.

It's French, he said. From m'aidez.Help me.

We wait, the clock in the hall ticks, Serena lights another cigarette, I get into the car. It’s a Saturday morning, it’s a September, we still have a car. Other people have had to sell theirs. My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter.

Orada öylece takılmamın nedeni; kendimce bir çeşit veda duygusu yaşamaya çalışmamdı. Birçok okuldan, birçok yerden ayrıldım, ayrıldığımı anlayamadım. Bundan nefret ediyorum. Ayrılışlarım acıklı, hatta kötü olabilir, ama bir yerden artık ayrılıyorsam bunu anlamak istiyorum. Bunu anlamadığınız zaman kendinizi daha kötü hissediyorsunuz.