The truth is not in the facts, but in the way we remember them.
真相不在事實中,而在我們記憶它們的方式里。
Words can be both wounds and bandages.
言語可以是傷口,也可以是繃帶。
To name something is to begin to free oneself from it.
命名某物就是開始從中解脫。
The body remembers what the mind tries to forget.
身體記得頭腦試圖遺忘的東西。
Writing is a way of reclaiming time.
寫作是奪回時間的一種方式。
Shame is the most intimate feeling, yet it connects us all.
羞恥是最私密的情感,卻將我們所有人聯(lián)系在一起。
Literature should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
文學(xué)應(yīng)該讓安逸者不安,讓不安者得慰。
過去從未死去,它甚至還未過去。
I do not write to confess, but to explore the limits of the sayable.
我寫作不是為了懺悔,而是為了探索可言的界限。
To write is to fight against silence and forgetting.
寫作是為了對抗沉默與遺忘。
The personal is always political.