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“...because while there are intimacies he’d been prepared for in having a second chance with Yuuji, intimacies they’ve had before and intimacies he’d missed in the time they were apart, he hadn’t quite anticipated the ones that will come with simply allowing himself to be known by the people around him. How there is the intimacy of having someone to come home to talk to about class and work, but there is also the intimacy of having Hanazawa from the clinic and Endo from school ask after Yuuji these days, the intimacy of being a steady fixture in Yuuji’s social media, an irremovable part of a map of his life as much as Yuuji is an irremovable part of his, and sometimes even the intimacy of knowing that there are people in Megumi’s life who know to call Yuuji when they can’t reach him.”
― First Love, Late Spring
― First Love, Late Spring
“So stop worrying about the past. The past is for ghosts. We’ve all done things that we regret. It’s what’s ahead of us that counts.”
― The Screaming Staircase
― The Screaming Staircase
“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.”
― The Creeping Shadow
― The Creeping Shadow
“Now, with more space to breathe, he finds intimacy in talking about Yuuji to other people, in answering calls from family and knowing that come visit means bringing Yuuji with him, in receiving cookies from a regular at the clinic and hearing her say, I frosted it with the icing you said your boyfriend liked. Yuuji has always said that there is so much love in the act of being known, that Megumi is better at this than he realizes—but there is also, Megumi has learned, a kind of special knowing in letting the people you love be known through you, and a kind of special loving in letting the people in your life be known by the person you love.”
― First Love, Late Spring
― First Love, Late Spring
“Up until the past couple of years, he’s never cared to notice. He’s observed, maybe, but never taken care to see the world with purpose. A sunset, for one, is a sunset, and moonrise is moonrise is moonrise; he knows with objective certainty that these are beautiful, but if the beauty does nothing then the knowing does equally nothing. He can appreciate them the way he can appreciate the existence of a fire escape, can take note of them the way he can take note of a rack of discounted flowers on the path to the cashier aisles, but they hold no place in his mind beyond that observation.
Until there’s suddenly reason for them to. Until a sunset is suddenly a photo he can send to someone whose affection for it he longs to bathe in. Until a fire escape is a place to run away to for a small pocket of time. Until a discounted flower is a gift.”
― First Love, Late Spring
Until there’s suddenly reason for them to. Until a sunset is suddenly a photo he can send to someone whose affection for it he longs to bathe in. Until a fire escape is a place to run away to for a small pocket of time. Until a discounted flower is a gift.”
― First Love, Late Spring
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