身体记得头脑试图遗忘的东西。
Writing is a way of reclaiming time.
写作是夺回时间的一种方式。
Shame is the most intimate feeling, yet it connects us all.
羞耻是最私密的情感,却将我们所有人联系在一起。
Literature should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
文学应该让安逸者不安,让不安者得慰。
过去从未死去,它甚至还未过去。
I do not write to confess, but to explore the limits of the sayable.
我写作不是为了忏悔,而是为了探索可言的界限。
To write is to fight against silence and forgetting.
写作是为了对抗沉默与遗忘。
The personal is always political.
Memory is not just a personal thing—it is also collective.
记忆不仅仅是私人的,它也是集体的。
I write to understand what hurts me and to make it exist outside of myself.
我写作是为了理解伤害我的东西,并让它在我之外存在。
Writing is a political act because it unveils what is hidden.
写作是一种政治行为,因为它揭露了隐藏的东西。
I write to understand the complexity of human experience.