作家的任务是命名那些无法命名的事物。

黑夜无论怎样悠长，白昼总会到来。

即使不完美，也很美。

忧心生时，你即受其所役。

"To understand a person, you must first understand the stories they tell themselves."

Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal.

世界是一幅伟大的画，我们是其中的色彩。

The spiritual life is the only life worth living.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch