"Every family is a haunted house."
每个家庭都是一座闹鬼的房子。
A great novel is one that changes the reader, that leaves him different after the last page.
There is an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been.
过去是一个异国他乡；他们在那里做事的方式不同。
"In literature, we find the echoes of our own lives, mirrored in the lives of others."
"I write to escape the mirror, but I always end up finding it."