"Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well."

有时候，关键在于如何打好一手烂牌。

"The pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow."

追求纯粹的美是一种陷阱，是通往痛苦和悲伤的快车道。

"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"

对物品过于在意会毁了你。只是——如果你足够在意某样东西，它就会拥有自己的生命，不是吗？而美丽的东西的全部意义——不就是它们将你与某种更大的美联系起来吗？

"We don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people."

我们不能选择自己的心。我们不能让自己想要对我们或对别人有益的东西。

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

书籍是飞机，是火车，是道路。它们是目的地，也是旅程。它们是家。

Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything.

有时候你必须先迷失自己，才能找到任何东西。

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

对物品过于在意会毁了你。只是——如果你对某样东西足够在意，它就会拥有自己的生命，不是吗？而事物的全部意义——美丽的事物——不就是它们将你连接到更大的美吗？

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

美改变了现实的纹理。

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

我们如此习惯于伪装自己，以至于最终连自己都被伪装了。

The truth is, we are all waiting for someone to take care of us. We are all waiting for someone to tell us what to do.

真相是，我们都在等待有人来照顾我们。我们都在等待有人告诉我们该做什么。