能够使我们成为现在的我们的唯一因素将是对类似我们的东西的感知。
The only thing that could make us what we are would be a perception of something like us.
"The task of the novelist is to awaken the reader's sympathy, to make the reader care."
Porcelain is the most alchemical of materials, turning earth into something that seems to hold light.