译文：立志别挑简单的目标，做事别躲困难的任务。

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

沉默非常重要。沉默和音符同等重要。

The novel is the art of the possible impossible.

我必须研究政治和战争、挂毯和瓷器。

每小时，她想着，有人锻造戒指，有人雕刻摇篮，有人输掉战争。

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

Home isn't a place, it's the people who make you feel you belong.