To write is to fight against silence and forgetting.
Memory is not just personal, it's collective. We remember through others and others remember through us.
记忆不仅是个人的，也是集体的。我们通过他人记忆，他人也通过我们记忆。
I believe that any human life is worthy of being narrated, that it even deserves literature's illumination.
我相信任何人的生命都值得被叙述，甚至值得文学的照亮。
Writing is a political act, it opens up space for the unheard.
写作是一种政治行为，它为无声者开辟空间。
I do not write for myself alone, but for those who cannot speak.
我不仅为自己写作，也为那些无法发声的人写作。
Every life is an archive.
每个人的生命都是一座档案库。
Writing is the only way I know how to live twice.
写作是我唯一知道的活两次的方式。
The truth is not in the facts, but in the way we remember them.
真相不在事实中，而在我们记忆它们的方式里。
Words can be both wounds and bandages.
言语可以是伤口，也可以是绷带。
To name something is to begin to free oneself from it.
命名某物就是开始从中解脱。
The body remembers what the mind tries to forget.