“海月”

哪怕是一只萤火虫喜欢上月亮，它也会想把自己所有的光都给它。跟喜欢的人多强大没关系，这是跳动不止的心意。

——《春日宴》

永远不要相信苦难是值得的。苦难就是苦难，苦难不会带来成功。苦难不值得追求。磨练意志是因为苦难无法躲避开。

——余华《活着》

What can I hold you with?

我用什么才能留住你？

I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the jagged suburbs.

我给你贫穷的街道，绝望的日落，嶙峋郊外的月亮。

I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at the lonely moon.

我给你一位久久凝望孤月之人的悲戚。

I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living men have honored in marble: my father’s father killed in the frontier of Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs, bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a cow;

我给你我的先祖，我已逝的先人