Belgüzar

“It's funny, but when I'm doing nothing, I get this feeling like I'm fighting something. Stick... fighting. It never goes away, even when I'm in bed, even when I'm walking around.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“Life might merely be a momentary bolt of lightning in the dark, after which the self melts into the infinite darkness.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

“it was like drinking the feeling of being peaceful. Being peaceful in your mind. Well, not if you have too much, then it’s something else.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Then it hit me: dying is just like sleeping. You only know you’re sleeping when you wake up the next day, but if morning never comes, you sleep forever. That must be what death is like. When someone dies, they don’t even know they’re dead. Because they never see it happen, nobody ever really dies. This hit me like a sucker punch.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven