过去并非直线，而是错综复杂的网。

文字的力量可以改变世界。

"The joy of reading is discovering that you are not alone."

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

幸福不是相信我们不需要改变；而是意识到我们可以改变。

你是我并不认识的人，但你却像喝醉了一样对我指指点点。

People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.