“The only easy day was yesterday.”
“Tek kolay gün dündü.”
"I returned day before yesterday," he answered, while he leaned his arm on the keys, bringing forth a crash of discordant sound.
"Day before yesterday!" she repeated, aloud; and went on thinking to herself, "day before yesterday, in a sort of an uncomprehending way. She had pictured him seeking her at the very first hour, and he had lived under the same sky since day before yesterday, while only by accident had he stumbled upon her. Mademoiselle must have lied when she said, "Poor fool, he loves you,"
“Kötü bir anıyı unutmanın en iyi yolu güzel bir tanesiyle değişmektir.”
Yes, Death. Death must be so beautiful. I want to lie in the soft brown earth with the grass above my head. I want to listen to silence. There is no yesterday and no tomorrow. I can forget time, I can forgive life, I can be at peace.
Hz. Muhammed 632 yılında Medine'de öldü. Fakat oğlan çocuğu olmadığı için, öldüğü zaman varis bırakmadı. Kadınların iktidara gelmesini önlediği için kızı Fatma kendisine varis olamazdı. Eğer oğlan çocuğu olmuş olsaydı ve örneğin, cariyesi Mariya'dan doğma çocuğu İbrahim yaşamış olsaydı, şüphesiz otomatikman kendisine varis olarak iktidara getirilmiş olacaktı.
(D.S. Margoliouth, The Caliphate: Yesterday. To-Day and To-Morrow.)
’They will hobble her and kill the spawn,’ said Strahl, who then spat to clear the foulness of the words. ‘Yesterday, Bakal, we would have joined in. We would have each taken her. One of our own knives might well have tasted the soft throats of the children. And now, look at us. Ashes in our mouths, dust in our hearts. What has happened? What has he done to us?’
‘He showed us the burden of an honourable man, Strahl. And yes, it stings.’
