Fuminori Nakamura Quotes

“The light from the scrawny desk lamp cast an orange glow over the dust.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

“The range of lights decking the funeral hall transformed the tense figures of the strangers into shafts of shadow on the floor. The shadows overlapped, forming peculiar geometric shapes on the linoleum.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

“What I remember most is looking at the trees.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

“It wasn’t some death wish; it was a ritual to make me stronger.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

“Outside the window, the trees were dancing in their disagreeable manner, somehow looking closer than before. Like unholy pendulums.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

“Coward that he was, he could never have done something so appalling unless someone had commanded him.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

“Will you go inside my head?”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

“She was thirty-two, but drew blank on various periods of her life. In her own peculiar turn of phrase, they were like holes in the ground filled with plastic.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

“Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said ‘Even gods cannot change the past.’ In which case, the gods are useless. People are different. The past piles up into the present. Some say the past gives us the world we know, or common knowledge, but I reject that view. […]”
― Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation