每个故事都有两面——表面上的和隐藏在下面的。
"Every story is two stories - the one on the surface and the one hidden beneath."
"The task of the novelist is to awaken the reader's sympathy, to make the reader care."
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
如果我们不考虑长期影响，开采效率就毫无意义。
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.