I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
我想起我那堆旧平装书,书页已经变得松软,仿佛它们曾经属于大海。
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
生命太短暂,不要浪费时间在无关紧要的事情上。
只有向后看才能理解生活;但要生活好,则必须向前看。
经营婚姻的最佳时间是在你拥有婚姻之前。
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.