"There are moments when the past feels so close you could reach out and touch it, and then it’s gone again, like smoke."
有些时候,过去感觉如此之近,仿佛伸手就能触碰,然后它又消失了,像烟一样。
"Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn."
The novel is the art of the unfinished, the unresolved.