“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine.”
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
“A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.”
― Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
― Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“I came to the realization that every moment exists in perpetuity regardless of whether it’s remembered. What has happened has happened; it occupies that moment in time forever. I was an eleven-year-old girl lying in the grass one summer. I knew in that moment that was true and recognized that I would blaze through moments for the rest of my life, forgetting things, and becoming ages older, until I forgot everything—so I consoled myself by committing to remember that one moment.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“Sometimes I wonder if I have really been the same person my whole life. I stare at the picture, and think: Is that really me? I have this bizarre feeling like I was a different person at every other stage of my life. I feel so removed from myself then. Sometimes I feel like I was a different person a month ago. A day. Five minutes. Now.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
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