This has become so dramatic.

Those memories, they are the coals that shield my heart from frost.

أنصحك ألا تمارس تلك العادة بينما تكون زوجتك الى جوارك حتى و إن ظننت أنها لا تراك ; فنحن نجيد إخفاءما نعرفه عنكم!

After a particularly disheartening day in my freshman year of high school, in which my arrogance had once again stirred up the insecurity of my classmates and driven them to acts of ill-concealed hostility,

أردتُ أن أؤمن بهم ولكنهم ربما أعتبروني مجرد ورقة يملأونها بما اشتهت انفسهم ثم يأتي يوم ويرمونها في القمامة مع باقي الأوراق..ربما حتى انا اصبحت لا ارى نفسي اكثر من ورقة في حياة الأخرين...

That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in the ammassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.