Mehm

“And though no one knew about it, she knew, and for me, that was everything, because she was everything for me, all the hope of the future that I cherished in my dreams! She was the person I had prepared for myself, and I needed no one else”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“If you walk around acting like you don’t care for long enough, people will start to believe you. If you really don’t care, then people who do care will leave your life and people who don’t care will come into it. And if that happens, you will find yourself in a very terrible place.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Lost Cat

“It's only in secondhand books that you can savor encounters like this, connections that transcend time. And that's how I learned to love the secondhand bookstore that handled these books, our Morisaki Bookshop. I realized how precious a chance I'd been given, to be part of that little place, where you can feel the quiet flow of time.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop