There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered.
没有比我们第一次巨大悲伤来临时的绝望更绝对的了,那时我们还不知道什么是经历过痛苦又被治愈,什么是绝望后又恢复。
过去从未死去,它甚至还没有过去。
作家最大的挑战不是找到正确的词语,而是在这些词语中找到真相。