Jie Hui

“重新眺望那樣的風景之間，我突然發現一個事實。
每個人看起來都那麼幸福。
我不知道他們是真的幸福，或者只是看起來這樣而已。
但總之那個九月底舒服的午後，每個人看來都很幸福，
因此我感到平常所沒有的巨大寂寞。
因為我覺得似乎只有我一個人不適應那風景。”
― 村上春樹, ノルウェイの森 Vol. 1

“For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again be loneliness in life.”
― Alice McDermott, Someone

“Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

“There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse