1.Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss... But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
有人住高樓，有人在深溝。有人光萬丈，有人一身鏽。世人萬千種，浮雲莫去求。斯人若彩虹，遇上方知有。
2.My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating inmidair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.
毫無原因地，我心髒就那麼漏跳了一拍。我的人生中第一次有了那樣的感覺。就像整個世界在你四周，從你身體由内而外地翻滾，而你飄浮在半空中。唯一能綁住你不會飄走的，就是那雙眼睛。當你們兩個人的眼睛被一種看不見的力量連接在一起，在外面的世界旋轉、翻騰并徹底分崩離析的時候，一把抓住了你。
3.I've flown kites before and I know — sometimes they're gone forever, and sometimes they're just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I've had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing after.
多年放風筝的經驗告訴我——有的時候它們一去不複返，有的時候它們就等在你去拯救它們的路上。有些風筝很幸運，有的也很難搞。兩種我都遇到過，一隻幸運的風筝才值得你去追尋它。
4.Then I began to notice how wonderful the breeze smelled. It smelled like ... sunshine. Like sunshine and wild grass and pomegranates and rain! I couldn't stop breathing it in, filling my lungs again and again with the sweetest smell I'd ever known.
我突然發現，原來微風的味道是那麼好聞。它聞起來就像……陽光。像陽光、野草、石榴和雨滴！我不由自主地大口呼吸着，我的肺被這種最甜蜜的味道一次又一次地充滿。
5.She's looking off into the distance and the wind is blowing her hair back like she's at the helm of a ship or something, sailing into the sun.
她望着遠方，風把頭發吹向背後，仿佛她正開着一條船，駛向太陽。
6. But if chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.
不過，如果混亂是給我的小窩建立秩序的必要步驟，那我正走在正确的道路上。
7.The boy still has a ways to go.
那個孩子還有很長的路要走。
8.There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.
沒有什麼比得上一個聰慧的女人能讓你生活得更愉快。
9.It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
當你回首過去，會發現這是很明顯的事，也很容易作出抉擇，但不幸的是，大多數人看到藏在表面之下的真相時，已經太晚了。
10.“A painting is more than the sum of its parts, ” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.
“一幅畫要大于構成它的那些筆畫之和。”他這樣說道，然後解釋說為什麼一頭牛隻是一頭牛，一片草地隻是一些花和草，太陽照射着樹木隻是一束光線，而把它們放在一起就有了一種魔力。
