So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

文学不是现实的镜子，而是塑造现实的锤子。

译文：因此，即使拥有中原的富饶，也比不上这座都城的无限繁华。

The past is not a straight line but a tangled web.

我认为冒险很重要，要走出你的舒适区。