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別煩憂，開心就好 作者 江國香織

◎既然人終有一死，既然無法知道什麼時候會走到生命的終點，何不拋開煩憂，開心就好。
◎誰都不知道以後的事，無論你和我，都無法預測哪一天會愛上別人。
◎人生不是思考出來的，而是活出來的。
◎記憶就像冷凍食品。即使再遙遠的記憶，不管過了多久，仍然保留著。既不會發臭，也沒有成長。
◎誰都不知道人心會在甚麼時候，發生怎樣的變化。
◎凡事都要自己決定，一旦決定，就要負起責任。
◎歸根究柢，人無法如此輕易的改變。
◎失落感只是「存在」而已，不需要受到它的束縛，也不需要沉浸其中。
◎不管你想要成為什麼，都需要靠自己。

夜火車 作者徐則臣

◎要做好學問，得有個良好的心態，寂寞、功名、屈辱，算得了甚麼？
◎他每次就努力把它推上去，然後發現又滾下來了。推上去就是為了滾下來，這就是他的現狀。
◎人哪，掙得自由的方法沒有想像的那麼多。
◎不重擺這東西，就得重擺別的。不然時間怎麼打發。
◎他只是在為一個預支的虛幻的目標努力，而他的脆弱在生活面前是如此的不堪一擊。
◎學問、研究是本質化的東西，如同信仰，不需要理由。
◎這就是一個人的死。不是一個人離開大家，而是大家離開一個人。
◎愛情這東西，就是個烏托邦，你信，它就在；不信，它就不在。

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Recently I also read some Japanese novels, such as "藍寶石" or "不中用的我仰望天空." In the past, I really liked to read Japanese novels, but now I feels little interested in reading them. I think that "別煩憂，開心就好" is okay to read. The story talked about three sisters how to deal with their relationships. Althought they all came from the same family, they have different points to face everything. Their parents' divorce made some impact on their thoughts about relationship. In these days, after reading Japanese novels, I want to stop reading Japanese novels. Maybe I always focus on some Japanese authors or some fixed topics, thus I felt some bored. Really need to find some different Japanese authors.  

"夜火車" is a good book for people to read. The story begined with that one student wanted to traval by train and needed money, but his parents did not give him money. Then the man lied to his parents by saying that he killed someone. His parents comfess their son's crime to the polices. Althought the student explained thousands times, His dipolma was detained by the school, actually by his teacher. In the end of the story, the person still go somewhere by train, and this time he cannot but go out because he really killed his friend. 

The book was impressive for me because of his characters. Every characters played an important role in the story. First of all, 陳木年, the student. He studies hard, and if he didn't lie, he will get one graduate program. But he failed. Because he came from the straightforward family, he did not suspect whether the school can detain his diploma. He also appreciated his teacher, 沈慕白 because his teacher encouraged him to do research and not to give up. He regards his teacher as an idol. That is why he felt angry when he found his teacher betrayed him. Why did his teacher do that? It invoked another story about his teacher and his teacher's friend, 許如竹.

I do not want to introduce every characters here, and I really want to say that the story expressed his history, his background, and his social principle. It sometimes looks like Taiwan. Sometimes someone wants to be successful, he need more help from others. Here, I mean, mepotism. It is no doubt that some people can be successful by their efforts, but it is believed that some people can be successful because of their social network. Also, someone cannot be successful because he offended someone that has the right to influence him. No judgement, if I have strong social network, I will make best use of them. 

Interestingly, these outlooks will appear in Chinese novels, not in Taiwanese novels. Maybe it is hard to express in public. However, I think it is like an hidden rule. People in Taiwan still do that, but they also want to pretend not to do that. And people accept the rule, so they don't argue it through writing novels.