“It’s six minutes of my life, tops, but some memories you don’t measure in minutes or miles, but by how much of yourself is still in that moment.”
― I Was a Teenage Slasher
― I Was a Teenage Slasher
“If the soul of a nation requires an enemy”
― A Theory of Dreaming
― A Theory of Dreaming
“In the same way, every authentic feeling had to start and end with itself: joy had to be independent from the world’s response; happiness couldn’t depend on anyone else. Everything, essentially, was in seeking outside what was already inside.”
― The Heartbeat Library
― The Heartbeat Library
“I have taken a break from reading, however, as it sent me into an existential crisis as usual – there are so many books and so many ideas in the world, and how can I hope to understand, learn, or discover even a fraction of these wonders in my short life?”
― A Letter to the Luminous Deep
― A Letter to the Luminous Deep
“Shūichi hated houses full of things, which is why he drew only windows in his books. It seemed to him a contradiction: people bought beautiful houses, spent millions of yen so that the windows would face south, the wood would be cedar, and the ceramics in the cabinet would be from the most exclusive potters, but then accumulated so much stuff that you could no longer see any of it; even the light had to make space for itself like water seeping between the furniture and clutter.”
― The Heartbeat Library
― The Heartbeat Library
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