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Memory is a tricky thing. It's not always reliable, but it's all we have.
The past is always with us, and it's always more complicated than we think.
We don't ever let go of anything, we just go on to the next thing.
The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long.
The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.
"Books are like rivers that flow into the sea of our consciousness."
"To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside."
That is what we have to do in life: to take the great wounds and the little scratches and keep on going.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Life is constantly letting go, but the biggest regret is that we don't have time to say goodbye properly.
We always use poetic language to describe our embarrassment in the cracks of youth.
文学的力量在于它能够让我们看到那些被遮蔽的真相。
小说的魅力在于它能够让我们看到生活的另一种可能性。