舞台是时间弯曲的地方。

小说的力量不在于其情节，而在于其唤起与读者自身经历共鸣的情感的能力。

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

The great ideological battles between liberalism and communism, or between democracy and authoritarianism, have been replaced by a general consensus on the desirability of liberal democracy.

没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。