人生中最美好的时刻，不是那些被动、接受、放松的时光……最美好的时刻通常发生在一个人自愿努力去完成一项艰难而有价值的事情时，身体或心灵被拉伸到极限的时候。

If your art doesn’t challenge you, it won’t challenge anyone else.

"Every ending is but a disguised beginning waiting to be recognized."

出自《史记·货殖列传》，马伯庸在作品中引用。

When you’re young, you presume there’ll be many people with whom you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

从我们记事起，妈妈就是一个中年妇女了，可谁又知道，她也曾是个花季少女。

A life without examination is not worth living.