regret.

“If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.” 

― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude.

「時刻要有毀滅的兩手準備」

「這城市有一股力量，能讓所有驚心動魄的事都變得平常，平常的事卻有驚奇與戲劇的本領。在這裡，遺忘是生存技能，時刻要有毀滅的兩手準備，記憶崩潰，日常破敗，在廢墟裡尋找氣息，如雜技表演，每月每天，口裡吐出白煙用以圈記著寒冷的時光，路邊的禿樹默默，投奔高高城牆落下的倒影，如飛蛾撲火。」

《交加街 38 號》

Blessed are the forgetful.

"What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger."

on reading.

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” 

- Haruki Murakami

Quote from Animal Farm.

"Four legs good, two legs better!"

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” 

- Roald Dahl

Quote from Animal Farm.

Quote from Animal Farm.

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, 

and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; 

but already it was impossible to say which was which.” 

- George Orwell

they didn’t understand life.

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. 

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. 

I wrote down ‘happy’. 

They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, 

and I told them they didn’t understand life.” 

John Lennon

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.” 

Haruki Murakami 

we can never know what to want

The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Movie.

“We can never know what to want, because, 

living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives 

nor perfect it in our lives to come.” 

Milan Kundera

things that revolve around love.

"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with 

things that revolve around love."

Marc Chagall

Instead I became a painter.

“When I was a child my mother said to me,
'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general.
If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.'
Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” 

Picasso

The world doesn't make sense.

“The world doesn't make sense,
so why should I paint pictures that do?”

Picasso

I write differently from what I speak.

“I write differently from what I speak, 

I speak differently from what I think, 

I think differently from the way I ought to think, 

and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.” 

Franz Kafka

Nobody deserves your tears.

“Nobody deserves your tears, 

but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.” 




- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have only myself.

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.” 

- Simone de Beauvoir

當我從書本上抬頭，總看見你或近或遠

「更多的時候，我們互相靜坐不語，當我從書本上抬頭，總看見你或近或遠，對我凝神看望，而且目不轉睛。多麼明亮美麗的一雙眸子，充滿感情、善意。你在想些甚麼？我無法知悉。我在想些甚麼，你也不會知道。我在想，是甚麼機緣，讓我們可以在當下這寧謐的環境裏相遇，彼此認識，成為異類的朋友？世界多麼遼闊，世事多麼紛亂，我們卻在地球的一隅，面對面，彼此無話，其實也毋須說話，讓時光漸漸流逝。但這樣和諧的日子能夠延續多久呢？大花呵，人生苦短，貓生也不長。你忽然已經十五歲，相當於我們人類的七十五歲，你竟然已比我還年長了。我們早晚都會歸於塵土，不是消失，而是變換形態，變成別的東面，成為雨滴、沙粒、微風，活在其他人的記憶，然後，連記憶也變得不可靠，沒有了。」

《那一雙明亮的眼睛》西西

關於夢。

「當我想起那個曾經被遺忘的夢時，它已經聚積了過多的能量，變得比現實更沉厚，就像切實地發生過的事情那樣，無法輕易地把它從腦內剔除。在夢裡那人以垂釣者的姿態站著，就像城市內其他無法適當地舒展四肢的人。我知道他的名字是白，雖然他從不曾說出自己的名字。」

＊＊＊

「從宿舍到圖書館側旁那公園的路途，剛好足夠回想一遍那一度丟落的夢，補足了夢的片段和片段之間殘缺的部分。我便看到了那些緊挨著彼此的背部，都是黯淡的藍和紫，彷彿是天空某片巨大烏雲的倒映，或，那只是許多人的同時吐出和吸入灰色煙霧所造作的氛圍。」

《縫身》韓麗珠

I was dying of boredom.

"My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom."

Marilyn Monroe