Jessica

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard. I wonder what you could have turned into without the war”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I watched him walking away, sweater over his shoulders, bag in hand, until he was no more than a tiny point in the distance. I watched, without so much as blinking, and I realized how utterly lonely I was. But all my staring couldn’t prevent that distant point from vanishing like a snowflake dissolving in the sunlight.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

“But as she tried to unravel him, he grew increasingly tragic and terrifyingly human”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I have to make do with a hollow heart full of holes.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police