相恋20年从没见面，他们的爱情感动了全世界！ / 开普饭

二十年的书信情缘，却终无缘相见

2016年，一部电影《北京遇上西雅图之不二情书》助“爱书人的圣经”《查令十字街84号》再登畅销书之列。

电影中，男女主人公缘起这本《查令十字街84号》，随后通过书信来往渐生情愫。这本被全球人深深钟爱的书，记录了纽约女作家海莲和伦敦旧书店的书商弗兰克之间的书缘情缘。双方二十年间由于种种原因始终未曾相见，但却为彼此的知己，通过书信交流点点滴滴。

Helene was a playwright who lived in New York, who was straightforward, generous, passionate and bookish. Frank was a book dealer who worked at Marks & CO., who was reserved, genial and committed.

一位是性格直爽、慷慨热情、嗜书如命的美国女作家；一位是性格保守、善良友好、工作尽职的英国书商。

Why is it classic? Because Helene loved London, but due to financial problems, she was unable to visit London and see the bookstore during the twenty years.

海莲是个英国文学爱好者，之所以找到大洋彼岸的英国书店就是要找些二手书。但是在和弗兰克的20年通信期间，她一次次因为经济原因，没能拜访英国。

当《查令十字街》成为畅销书后，她还是在出版社的安排下终于到了伦敦，但是这时候弗兰克和其他书店伙伴都已经不在了。

书籍是牵起他们20年间情缘的红线，书中哪些话已经被奉为经典了呢？跟着Echo一起来欣赏。

“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”

“如果你们恰好路过查令十字街84号，请代我献上一吻，我亏欠它良多……”

“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”

“我爱飞页上的题词和页边空白的注释，我喜爱那种翻开别人翻过的书页战友般的感情，也喜爱旧人标注的段落唤起我注意力的感受。”

“It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.”

“买一本我从来没有读过的书是违反我的原则的，这就像买一条你从来没试过的裙子。”

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.”

“我记得多年前有人告诉我人们一定会在英国找到他们寻找的东西。”

除了经典的语录，因为这是两个书友间的通信，所以里面有很多书籍和文化，是爱书的心头好。

比如简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》