埃瑪·希利
《伊麗莎白不見了》懸疑佳作
The hardest person to forgive is always yourself.
最難原諒的人永遠是自己。
Fiction allows us to tell truths that are too slippery for nonfiction.
小說讓我們能夠講述那些對非虛構(gòu)作品來說太過滑溜的真相。
Every family is a haunted house in its own way.
每個家庭都以自己的方式成為一座鬧鬼的房子。
The dead don't stay where you put them.
逝者不會停留在你安置他們的地方。
We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.
我們都是自己人生不可靠的敘述者。
The more I learn about memory, the less I trust it.
我對記憶了解得越多，就越不信任它。
Writing fiction is like remembering things that never happened.
寫小說就像回憶從未發(fā)生過的事情。
Grief is not linear. It doesn't follow a neat trajectory from denial to acceptance.
悲傷不是線性的。它不會整齊地從否認走向接受。
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
過去從未消逝，它甚至從未成為過去。
I wanted to write a book about memory because I think it's one of the most fascinating things about being human.
我想寫一本關(guān)于記憶的書，因為我認為這是人類最迷人的特質(zhì)之一。