Neko~chan

“I don't know then that one day I won't be seventeen. I don't know that youth doesn't last, that it's only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it's too late. It's finished, vanished, lost. There are some around me who can sense it; the adults repeat it constantly but I don't listen. Their words roll over me but don't stick. Like water off the feathers of a duck's back. I'm an idiot. An easygoing idiot.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Her experience of the world was still not deep enough to help her see that cruelty and cowardice go hand in hand; and that those who, when they’re riding high, transgress flagrantly are later crushed by the slightest touch of hardship, at which they pull long, sad faces.”
― Eileen Chang, Half a Lifelong Romance

“Today, when I meet children on this beach, when I see them running in the dunes, or lying on the hot stone wall that was once a levee, I remember that I was like them once, with their incredible lightness and insouciance, soaking in the sun. You can never really let go of your childhood. Especially when it was happy.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“我要你知道，在这个世界上，总有一个人是会永远等着你的。无论什么时候，无论在什么地方，总会有这么一个人”
― Eileen Chang, Half a Lifelong Romance