As a kid， I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills， vaccinate cattle， and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon， especially "Days of our Lives." My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club， a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every few summers， we'd join the caravan. We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car， and off we'd go， in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. On one particular trip， I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips， and I hated the smell.
I'm not a girl who hides her light. I'm a girl who shines.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
不能檢查反省自己的人，看不出自身毛病；不能耐心忍受麻煩的人，終究是一事無成。
"Literature is the mirror of society, reflecting its beauty and its ugliness, its hopes and its fears."
活著是世界上最罕見的事情。大多數人只是存在，僅此而已。