but two wrongs can never make a right, because two wrongs can never equal each other. for the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places:absolute forgiveness…or mortal vindication. this is not a story about forgiveness.
they say revenge is a dish best served cold. but sometimes it’s as warm as a bowl of soup. my father died in innocent man.
俗話說君子報仇十年不晚,而有時十年后的仇恨不減當年。我父親含冤而終。
when everything you love has been stolen from you, sometimes all you have left is revenge.
當你所愛的一切被人剝奪,你所剩下的唯有復仇。
“before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” confucius
子曰:“攻乎異端,斯害己也。”
when i was a little girl, my understanding of revenge was as simple as the sunday school proverb that hid behind, neat little morality slogans, like, “do unto others” and “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
and mistakes are life and death, collateral damage is inescapable.
走錯一步,攸關生死;殃及魚池,在所難免。
trust is a difficult thing, whether it’s finding the right people to trust or trusting the right people will do the wrong thing. but trusting our heart is the riskiest thing of all. in the end, the only person we can truly trust is ourselves.
the greatest weapon anyone can use against us is our mind. are we true to ourselves? or do we live for the expectations of others? and if we are open and honest, can we ever truly be loved? can we find the courage to release our deepest secrets? or in the end, are we all unknowable even to ourselves?
appearances can be deceiving ,can't they ? and you've practically made it an art form .ever time i smile at you across a room or we run into each other at the luncheon, or i o welcome you into my home. let that smile be a reminder of just how much i despise you . and that every time i hug you , the warmth you feel ,is my hatred burning through .
guilt is a powerful affliction. you can try to turn your back on it, but that’s when it sneaks up behind you and eats your life. some people struggle to understand their own guilt, unwilling or unable to justify the part they play in it. others run away from their guilt, until there’s no conscience left at all. but i run toward my guilt. i feed off of it. i need it. for me, guilt is one of the few lanterns that still light my way.
in revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. in the end, the guilty always fall.
復仇時,和生活中一樣,每一舉動都有正面或反面的結果。但最終,正義將戰(zhàn)勝邪惡。
never underestimate the power of guilt; it compels people to some pretty remarkable places.
永遠不要低估邪惡的力量,它會將人逼至意想不到的境地。
never underestimate your enemy and never let your guard down.
永遠不要低估你的敵人,永遠不要放松警惕。
just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. one that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. a duality governed by the balance of light and darkness.
they say vengeance taken will tear the heart and torment the conscience. if there’s any truth to it, then i now know with certainly that the path i’m on is the right way.
俗話說復仇是撕心裂肺的痛楚,是折磨良知的苦澀。如果此言非虛,我可以肯定我正走在自己復仇之路上。
like life, revenge can be a messy business. and both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. but the heart has its reasons, or which reasons can not know.
as hamlet said to ophelia, “god has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” the battle between these two halves of identity who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable.
within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. but those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.
每個人心中都有一個天使一個惡魔,只有那些游刃于道德界線邊緣的人,才是真正的強者。
there’s an old saying about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. but those of us who refuse to forget the past are condemned to relive it.
有句古話說道,忘記過去的人注定會重蹈覆轍。而忘不了過去的人,亦注定會重蹈覆轍。
the past is a tricky thing. sometimes it’s etched in stone. and other times, it’s rendered in soft memories. but if you meddle too long in deep, a dark thing, who knows what masters you’ll awaken?
it’s been written that a lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him. for my father, the secrets withheld by the woman he loved proved powerful enough to destroy him. i’m just now to beginning to understand the enormity of that burden.
we all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world…friendship we pretend, relationships we hide. but worst of all is that love we never let show. the most dangerous secrets a person can bury are those we keep from ourselves.
how does it feel now that your targets are no longer more ideas, but flesh and bones?
當那些你假象的復仇目標現(xiàn)在就活生生地在你面前,你有什么感覺?
the task in front of you requires absolute focus. if you let your emotions guide you, you will fail.
荊棘的復仇之路需要你坐到心無旁騖。如果你還放不下兒女情長,你會一敗涂地。
mt father wrote,” always question where your loyalties lie. the people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it.”
defense lawyers use the term” duress” to describe the use of force, coercion, or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of a crime. when duress is applied to the emotionally unstable, the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable.
duress impacts relationships in one of two ways. it either tears people apart, or strengthens their connection, binding them tightly in a common objective.
威脅逼迫對感情有兩種影響,或令人們分道揚鑣,或令心靈更加緊密,為了同一目標,將彼此牢牢綁緊。
for the average person, leading an ordinary life, fame hold an hypnotic attraction. many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. but for the unlucky few who’ve had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term.
truth is a battle if perceptions, people only see what they're prepared to confront. it not what you look that matters, but what you see. and when different perceptions battle against one another...the truth has a way of getting lost...and the monsters ...find a way of getting out.