"To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, that we can release ourselves from the old, old burden of resentment and recrimination."

比主动遗忘更痛苦的，是被动记住。

The act of writing is an act of faith—in language, in the reader, in the story itself.

I'm not a saint, I'm just a sinner who tries.