When they were almost to the company housing, a comet drew a large arc across the sky up ahead, then vanished.
“Often, to love is to seek out pain,” Heishi said.
“But we’re still drawn into love with all our hearts, just like we long to read and write. The difference lies in how love’s outcome cannot be predicted, while reading and writing are sure to bring about happiness. That is why humankind invented literature,” Xiao Sang said.
—Can Xue, The Enchanting Lives of Others
