The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

by Liu Cixin

Shi’s questions irritated Wang again, not unlike the feeling a man has upon finding out that he has swallowed a fly with his meal.

Anyway, my life passed day after day accompanied by this strange feeling, and before I knew it, I was old.…”

She consumed her own vitality, the vitality that could not be renewed, without pity.

Reality brands each of us with its indelible mark. Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.