“The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul."
At some point in the past, someone reading this book had felt moved to take a pen and draw a line under these words. It made me happy to think that because I had been moved by that same passage too, I was now connected to the stranger.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
At some point in the past, someone reading this book had felt moved to take a pen and draw a line under these words. It made me happy to think that because I had been moved by that same passage too, I was now connected to the stranger.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“You can’t love someone out of addiction, all the oceans are the tears of those who have tried. We’re not allowed to die for our children, the universe won’t let us, because then there wouldn’t be any mothers left.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“The artist’s bookcases were full of poets, like the bookcases of anyone trying to find out how everyone else copes.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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