死者并未离去。他们只是不在此处。
The past is not a line but a landscape.
过去不是一条线，而是一片风景。
The dead are not silent. They are merely waiting to be heard.
死者并非沉默。他们只是在等待被倾听。
The past is always changing, because we are always changing our relationship to it.
过去总在变化，因为我们与它的关系总在改变。
The dead don’t stay where they are buried.
死者不会停留在他们被埋葬的地方。
The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.
历史学家的任务是理解过去，而小说家的任务是让它活过来。
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
The dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.
A novel is a long answer to a question you can’t quite formulate.
小说是对一个你无法确切表述的问题的长篇回答。
The present is the point at which the future crumbles into the past.
The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.