“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
机器翻译，仅供参考：
“当我们年轻的时候，这些话散布在我们周围。因为它们是由经验组装而成的，我们也是，一句一句地组装，直到故事成形。”