I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

  • -- John Mayer 约翰·迈尔

我甚至无法向你解释那种感觉有多糟糕,我把和一个女人约会等同于惩罚、羞耻、内疚、失望、指责、谴责和迫害。这是一个噩梦。

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think.

如果女人除了在男人写的小说中没有存在,人们就会把她想象成一个极其重要的人;很不同;英雄的意思是;灿烂的和肮脏的;美到极点,丑到极点;有人认为他和男人一样伟大。

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

我对约会游戏一无所知。我不知道如何和一个特定的人交谈并建立联系。我只是认为你必须一个人一个人地去,尽可能地与人相处。

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

事实上,一些评论家说,当他们读到这个故事的时候,他们忘记了主角是一位黑人女性。他们被这个故事所感动——被人们作为一个整体所感动——而不是被一些小事所感动。

If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

如果你没有情人节礼物,那就和你的女朋友们出去玩,不要去找别人。对的时候,他们会来找你的。

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.

再多的愧疚也改变不了过去,再多的担忧也改变不了未来。

How near to guilt without actual guilt.

没有真正的罪恶感是多么接近罪恶。