那天晚上在床上，在黑暗中，闹钟的发光表盘从床头柜上闪闪发光，她问自己是否可以强迫自己喜欢某人，或者是否只能创造出来的情感条件希望能自发地做到这一点。
(In bed that night, in the darkness, with the illuminated dial of her alarm clock glowing from the bedside table, she asked herself whether one could force oneself to like somebody, or whether one could merely create the conditions for affection to come into existence and hope that it did, spontaneously.)