N.K.杰米辛
多元文化科幻先鋒
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
你不必非得做個好人。你不必跪著走過一百英里的沙漠去懺悔。你只需要讓你身體里柔軟的動物去愛它所愛的。
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
The world is full of people who will tell you what you can't do. You don't need them. You already know what you can't do. What you need is someone to tell you what you can.
世界上到處都是告訴你你不能做什么的人。你不需要他們。你已經(jīng)知道自己不能做什么。你需要的是有人告訴你你能做什么。
Power is not a toy we give to children. It is a weapon we place in the hands of soldiers.
權力不是我們給孩子的玩具，而是我們放在士兵手中的武器。
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The truth is a weapon, and like any weapon, it can be used for good or ill.
真相是一種武器，就像任何武器一樣，它可以用于善或惡。
The hardest thing to do is to accept that you are not the hero of your own story.
最難的事情是接受你不是自己故事中的英雄。
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, at any time, and with utter recklessness.
自由的代價是愿意在任何地方、任何時間、以完全不計后果的方式進行突然的戰(zhàn)斗。
The world is full of people who will tell you what you can't do. What you must do is find the ones who will tell you what you can.
世界上到處都是會告訴你你不能做什么的人。你必須做的是找到那些會告訴你你能做什么的人。
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
真相很少是純粹的，也從來不是簡單的。