“Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”
― The Inner Circle
― The Inner Circle
“When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she come. She think you dead for ever. But she see you in her mind. Now as I speak maybe she see you in her mind. You always there. I know. I have son too. I have Michiya. He always in my head. Like Kimi. They dead for sure, but they in my head. They in my head forever.”
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“We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.”
― Commencement
― Commencement
“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― The Discourses
― The Discourses
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