Jeff Backhaus > Quotes

“The worst kind of loneliness is when you're unable to be where you want to be, where you wouldn't have to be alone.”
― Jeff Backhaus, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister

“But trying to hope is itself a form of hope.”
― Jeff Backhaus, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister

“The wasted life, we all think it's a shame, but what about the full life, what about the full life that can never be full enough, the life full by every measure but time?”
― Jeff Backhaus, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister

“He shot the rest of the roll for her, twenty portraits, twenty different expressions, a catalog of someone she will say she once knew. She'll put her favorites on the wall, and when someone asks who it is, she'll say, "Oh, he's one of my American friends," and leave it at that, but she'll close her eyes for just a moment and remember everything, all at once, and when the feelings become too intense, unbearable, she'll open her eyes and smile.”
― Jeff Backhaus, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister

“The more we say the less we understand.”
― Jeff Backhaus