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“it’s not as if you love someone once and that’s it. You renew your love again and again over the long haul, through everything that happens along the way.”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man

“Humans are really strange. When no one validates you, you often can't perceive your own value.”
― Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara

“This society hasn't changed one bit. People who don't fit into the village are expelled: men who don't hunt, women who don't give birth to children. For all we talk about modern society and individualism, anyone who doesn't try to fit in can expect to be meddled with, coerced, and ultimately banished from the village.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“I love her face when she smiles. But it could be that her smile is a lie that she uses to hide her clenched teeth. I don't understand why she cried. I can't even say, "You'll be all right." But I will always be by your side. After all, I am your cat.”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“No human is always strong, but no human is weak forever, either.”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“I don’t fear death. It’s no different from sleeping — it’s like we practice dying every night.”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“it's your life, and you have to make sure you keep enough of it for yourself”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“we can't remember everything, only the parts that are truly important”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“I couldn’t do anything about her problems.
I just lived my days at her side.”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“simply put, paradise never lasts long”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Sara said she has feelings for me. He had no reason to doubt it. But there are countless things in the world for which affection is not enough. Life is long, and sometimes cruel . Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“I wanted a taste of many different lives, sophisticated or simple, highbrow or low. Only then would this journey be worthwhile. (Although perhaps a life plain as porridge would never be an option for me.)”
― Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara

“Strange that there are some things people won't change, with tradition as an excuse.”
― Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara

“我在想，飛蛾撲火時，一定是極快樂幸福的。”
― 三毛, 撒哈拉的故事

“All those hands that I’ve shaken, all those brilliant smiles exchanged, all those boring conversations, how could I just let a wind blow through my skirt and scatter these people into nothingness and indifference?”
― Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara