"The snow fell silently, but it crushed the boy's last roof."
"The flattened wheat ears lie between the pages of the book, golden and dazzling, like the early summer afternoon that will never come back. It is also like a heavy, silent promise, weighing on the desolate hearts of the two teenagers."
"The cement playground and three-story red brick building of the county junior high school were like a huge, unfamiliar fortress. He and she were like two weeds that strayed into the glass greenhouse, growing silently and out of place in the brilliance and noise."
Intention: Fight against suffering, beauty in pain, pure love