"The world is full of stories, but it is the ones we choose to tell that define us."
世界充满了故事，但我们选择讲述的那些故事定义了我们。
每种材料都有自己的记忆和历史。
The novel is a way of thinking about the world, not just a way of describing it.
我不是一个放弃幸福的人。