Jeff Lee

“一個人的辭世，如果叫旁人都鬆口氣，那人，也就很失敗。”
― 亦舒, 可安歇的水邊

“Unlike Man and Ngo, I was never much of an organizer or agitator, which was one reason, Man would say later, that the committees above decided I would be a mole.

He used the English word, which we had learned not so long ago in our English course, taught by a professor whose greatest joy was diagramming sentences. A mole? I said. The animal that digs underground?

The other kind of mole.

There's another kind?

Of course. To think of a mole as that which digs underground misunderstands the meaning of the mole as a spy. A spy's task is not to hide himself where no one can see him, since he will not be able to see anything himself. A spy's task is to hide where everyone can see him and where he can see everything. Now ask yourself: What can everyone see about you but you yourself cannot?

Enough with the riddles, I said. I give up.

There—he pointed at the middle of my face-in plain sight.

I went to the mirror to see for myself, Man peering over my shoulder. There it indeed was, such a part of myselfI had long ago ceased to notice it. Keep in mind that you will be not just any mole, Man said, but the mole that is the beauty spot on the nose of power itself.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“走訪各地，蒐集各種線索，絞盡腦汁思考後，偵探才會總結出一個答案，但『輕易下結論的人』不一樣。他們是先有自己相信的答案，再把現實拆解、拼湊成對得上那個答案的模樣。他們距離真正的答案還很遠，就以為得到答案了。要和這樣的人應對非常辛苦，我明白。”
― 逸木裕, 如果她不是偵探

“Brute force will get you bad answers, lies, misdirection, or worse yet, will get you the answer the prisoner thinks you want to hear. He will say anything to stop the pain.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer