失眠症让我感受不到真实，一切都很虚幻，事情都成了相同的拷贝。

　　4、We used to read pornography. Now it was the horchow collection.

　　以前我们看色情图片寻找刺激，现在是看产品目录。

　　5、Lost in oblivion,dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

　　不顾一切，感到黑暗，沉默和完整。我找到了自由，抛开所有希望就是自由。

　　6、I wasn't really dying. I wasn't host to cancer or parasites. I was the warm little center. That the life of this world crowded around.

　　我没有绝症，也没有癌症或是寄生菌。我只是一个小小的中心，周围拥挤的生命的中心。

　　7、Every evening, I died and every evening, I was born again. Resurrected.

　　我每晚都会死一次，可是又重生一次。复活过来。

　　8、When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep and you're never really awake.

　　得失眠症的人无法真正入睡，也没有清醒的时刻。

　　9、If I did have a tumor…I'd name it Marla. Marla…the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it, but you can't.

　　玛拉犹如我的癌症，就像长在嘴边的烂疽一般。不去舔就不会恶化，但没有办法不去舔。

　　10、Marla's philosophy of life was that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't.