Afreen

“What did I gain by growing up, and what did I lose? I know the answer to only the second part of that question. Innocence—all those precious hopes and dreams that you can only have when you’re in your adolescence.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“People are willing to accept the pain and suffering of others, limitless amounts of it, as long as it helps them to keep on believing in whatever it is that they want to believe. Love, meaning, doesn’t matter.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“If you’re trying to separate out the scores of “meaningless things” in the world from everything else, you’ll eventually have to make a judgment about human beings, about our existence. In my case, I think that it’s all the movies that I’ve enjoyed and the memories I have of enjoying them over the years that give my life some meaning. They’ve made me who I am.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World