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。
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
A proposition is an assertion that something is or is not the case.