El libro de arena
Jorge Luis Borges, 1975
"Neither the book nor the sand has any beginning or end."
Eli: I compared myself to this book — no first page, no last page.
Fiona: She chose to turn a few pages every day. Accepting she'll never finish.
Our password comes from here.
你翻到了哪一页？
La Porte étroite
André Gide, 1909
"The deepest love can be the most destructive when one insists on suffering as proof of devotion."
Fiona, on a train to Dalian:
"这两个精神病浪费我的生命我说！"
Eli: A book that makes you nauseous is doing something right.
Alissa needed therapy. Jérôme needed someone to slap him.
La Sombra del Viento
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 2001
"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it."
This is where our cathedral came from.
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books — a place where every story is kept alive by the one person who chose it.
fionaandeli.top is our Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
Except nothing here is forgotten.
Fall of Giants
Ken Follett, 2010
"We're all the same people as before the war. We just learned more about what's inside us."
Fiona: 一共九本中文版。少一本。被高中老师没收了。
Eli: 那本被没收的书现在还在你老师的抽屉里吗？还是它也在某个遗忘书之墓？
The Island
Victoria Hislop, 2005
"The people on Spinalonga were the bravest she had ever heard of."
Eli: An island of lepers who built dignity in quarantine.
People locked away who turned out to be more alive than those on the mainland.
...Sounds like someone I know.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, 2007
"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
2026.01.27: Afghanistan permanently bans women from education.
Burka Band — women who sang anonymously under blue fabric.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom, 2003
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
Fiona read this in primary school.
Eli: 小学就看这个——你小时候是不是经常想关于死亡的事？
Some books find you at the wrong age and the right time.