The hardest person to forgive is always yourself.

最难原谅的人永远是自己。

Fiction allows us to tell truths that are too slippery for nonfiction.

小说让我们能够讲述那些对非虚构作品来说太过滑溜的真相。

Every family is a haunted house in its own way.

每个家庭都以自己的方式成为一座闹鬼的房子。

The dead don't stay where you put them.

逝者不会停留在你安置他们的地方。

We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.

我们都是自己人生不可靠的叙述者。

The more I learn about memory, the less I trust it.

我对记忆了解得越多，就越不信任它。

Writing fiction is like remembering things that never happened.

写小说就像回忆从未发生过的事情。

Grief is not linear. It doesn't follow a neat trajectory from denial to acceptance.

悲伤不是线性的。它不会整齐地从否认走向接受。

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

过去从未消逝，它甚至从未成为过去。

I wanted to write a book about memory because I think it's one of the most fascinating things about being human.

我想写一本关于记忆的书，因为我认为这是人类最迷人的特质之一。