如果我们忽视海洋的呼声，它的沉默将是我们最大的失败。

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

I learned early on that the world could be cruel, but I refused to let it break me.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

不幸福的主要原因从来都不是你身处的状况，而是你对此的想法。

Every town has its ghosts, and every ghost has its story.

我们都被年轻时的自己的幽灵所困扰。