很多事情未能盡如人意，讓我感到可惜。但我認為你們為民主而走的路，最終絕不會白費。現在乍看像是「甚麼都沒發生過」，但在看不到的地方，確實起了絲毫變化。你們走過的路，已化作事實留下來，沒有人可以無視這些事實。世界亦會根據這些事實而改變。今後，請你們繼續努力，一點一滴改變這個世界。我仍會為你們加油。
I regret that a lot of things did not go as hoped, but I think what you did for democratisation will never be in vain. It remains a fact, and no one can ignore that fact. Please keep trying to change the world, even just a little. I give my support, We can see [a world without walls] with our own eyes – we can even touch it with our own hands if we try hard, I’d like to send this message to the young people in Hong Kong who are struggling against their wall right now at this moment.
就讓我引用村上春樹在二零一五年時，就着一位香港女生提問了關於二零一四年示威的來信的回覆來作為二零二零年的開端。
Let's begin the year of 2020 by quoting the reply of Haruki Muraki to a Hong Kong girl about the 2014 protest in Hong Kong.