問道寒山~台詞小札

Ada寫給Inman的那封信

Since you've left, time has been measured out in bitter chapters. Last fall, my father died. Out farm at Black Cove is abandoned. Every house in these mountains touched by tragedy. Each day the dread of learning who has fallen, who will not return from this terrible war. And no word from you. Are you alive? I pray to God you are.
 
This war is lost on the battlefield and is being twice over by those who stayed behind. I'm still waiting, as I promised I would. But I find myself alone and at the end of my wits, too embarrassed to keep taking from those who can least afford to give.
 
My last thread of courage now is to put my faith in you, and to believe I will see you again. So now I say to you, plain as I can, if you are fighting, stop fighting, if you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me, come back to me is my request.
 
英曼的很多話我也很喜歡:

I dont know or even if she knows me she is the place i'm heading,and i hardly know her.
懷念那年的自己，我甚至完全不了解他。但我曾愛他勝過愛自己。


If you could see my inside, or whatever you want to name it; my spirit, that's what I fear. I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground but I wasn't ready. But if I had... if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead! How could I write to you after what I'd done? What I'd seen?

You are all that keeps me from sliding into some dark place.

A thousand moments. They're like a bag of tiny diamonds glittering in a black heart. Don't matter if they're real or things I made up. The shape of your neck, that's real. You were always carrying a tray.

---------兩人重逢時他在營火邊說的

Look at the sky now. What color is it? Or the way a hawk flies. Or you wake up and your ribs are bruised thinking so hard on somebody. What do you call that?
-----------戰爭爆發前兩人在艾達家見面時說的

還有兩人的「訂婚」：

英曼：I marry you ,I marry you, I marry you.
艾達：I marry you(重複六次）



Ruby: They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!' 　盧比：他們把這場戰爭稱作是大地上的烏雲。但是這樣的天氣是他們造成的，然後他們站在雨中然後說「該死，在下雨！」 　　

Ada: What we have lost will never be returned to us. The land will not heal - too much blood. All we can do is learn from the past and make peace with it. 　　
阿達：我們丟失的東西永不會再回到我們身邊。這塊土地永遠無法痊癒——因為太多的血債。我們所能做的就是向從前吸取教訓並帶著它創造和平。 　　.

Inman: You are all that keeps me from sliding into some dark place. 英曼：是你讓我一直遠離那無際的深淵。 　　
Ada: But how did I keep you? We barely knew each other. A few moments. 　　
阿達：但是我是怎麼幫你的？我們幾乎對彼此不了解。只是一些瞬間。

千萬次的眼神交會足以使得他們永存於心，守候一生。正如他們重逢的那天晚上，Inman說："A thousand of moments! They are like a bag of tiny diamonds."