Haniya.

“Hirai saw Kei as a confidante with whom she could share anything. The emotional gravity was strong. Kei was able to accept anything - forgive anything - that Hirai let flow out. A single kind word from kei could cut the cords of tension that ran through her.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“After a long silence of being lost in her feelings, Hirai managed to mutter just two words 'Thank you'. She didn't know whether that one phrase could contain all these feelings or whether it conveyed how she felt. But every part of her at that moment was invested in those two words.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“i am too afraid
of people who have souls like hometowns
warm, forgiving and too kind
that even if you leave; even when you leave
will always welcome you home
remember you with your family name
i am too afraid
of something too homely
when every breath coming out of my body
is shaped like leaving”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir