Takuya Asakura > Quotes

“Words hold such immense power. A book is a door to the unknown; it warmly welcomes those who step inside and transports them to all sorts of times and places.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“If only the world knew that certain things were not meant to be measured by metrics like efficiency and profitability.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“I’m afraid that’s something even I can’t say for sure. Miracles are capricious things.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“And, Mr Kikukawa - saying this makes me feel a bit presumptuous, but there's no need for you to be so afraid of forgetting. Once created, memories and words will never be erased. Even if you forget yourself completely, that will never mean that you did not exist. You see, when a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, it will still make a sound.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“Once created”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“This is the amazing thing about the human imagination. You could say that through imagining them, such flows of time have come into existence. Words and the human imagination are that powerful.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“Perhaps life was just an accumulation of such strange and trivial mysteries, Mio thought.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“When that happens, the door opens. As the old saying goes, a book is “a door to another, unknown world”.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“We may not realise it, but miracles happen all the time, much more frequently than we think. But the ways in which these miracles occur, and to whom, are decided randomly. I say "decide", but really, the source responsible for them is rather unpredictable. To tell you the truth, we are almost like victims of this source's capricious nature. Lately, though, I've come to think that whether we consider this fortunate or not is up to ourselves.”
― Takuya Asakura

“You can’t count a hundred years on your own, of course. But there are two of us. If we each count fifty years, then together, we can live alongside one another for a hundred years. So please promise me that we’ll be together for the next one hundred years. And that we’ll celebrate our golden anniversary by having a dance, just like we are right now. Can you promise me this?”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“Was it a bookshop with a coffee shop attached to it? Or a coffee shop with a big collection of books? It had to be one or the other. It did seem to have the atmosphere of a traditional coffee shop, but there were books everywhere she looked. There were bookcases arranged along the walls, and on top of the larger tables were mini bookcases holding small paperbacks and manga-sized books. There were even books on the edge of the counter, wedged between bookends. In short, the whole place was brimming with books.”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“At the same time”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“My star will be just one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens… They will all be your friends⁠—”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

“sixty-seven years”
― Takuya Asakura, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop