Klara

“But who says I’m lonely? I’m not lonely.’ ‘Perhaps all humans are lonely. At least potentially.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“… he wrote that all I needed was to believe that the world wasn’t one way. That it was big enough to contain a lot of different stories in it, big enough to be unpredictable. But I wasn’t sure how to believe him.”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“It’s my belief that everything in this world has its own language. We have the ability to open up our ears and minds to anything and everything. That could be someone walking down the street, or it could be the sunshine or the wind.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn’t be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun