“He asks, are you happy,” says the interpreter...there is a silence. But sometimes it’s as dangerous not to speak. “Yes, we are very happy,” I murmur. I have to say something. What else can I say?”
There's something you can depend upon; there will always be alliances, of one kind or another. For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.
I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name, remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me.
There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. 通过两个介词的对比很精辟地解释了积极自由与消极自由的区别。中译本只怕无论如何也不能传达出这种效果。
You were a wanted child. God knows, she would say at the moment. Lingering over the photo albums in which she had me framed. These albums were thick with babies. But my replicas thinned out as a grew older, as if the population of my duplicate had been hit by some plague. She would say this a little regretfully, as though I hadn't turned out entirely as she had expected. No mother is ever compl...
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
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