"Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm."

我意识中隐隐地感觉，我们都坐在原地等着某个可怕的事件发生，然后我才记起它已经发生过了。

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."