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“Maybe I’ll be able to look harder at the past by getting some experience in the present.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“I lost the things that had given me shape, and as they disappeared, I felt like I was dissolving into thin air.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“Up until then, i'd never understood how people could just keep on living (...) Maybe I had a place to belong, but it wasn't something definite, like a seat. It was flowing and formless... Perhaps inside of me, perhaps outside of me. A reason to live, the power to live, a place to belong in this world... I think the essence of that sweet nectar varies from person to person.”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness