"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
过去从未死去，它甚至还没有过去。
生活就是关于成长和改变。当你停止成长，你就停止了生活。
The best stories are those that remind us that the world is alive.
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
你可以用一生的时间试图逃离你开始的地方，只有当你到达那里时，你才意识到你已经把它带在身边了。
小说让我们得以体验多重人生，透过不属于自己的眼睛看世界。