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“Don’t fly away. We are where we are. We are where we are, I repeated. And where are you, Elsa? Perhaps there was no one in the world who better understood me. And misunderstood me. His main task when I was a child was to focus my wandering attention. His question went back a long way. Now I heard it as a refrain, a repeated musical phrase. I’m here with you, I replied. My words were muffled under the mask. It began to dawn on me, at that moment, that I was going to lose him. It didn’t matter if I wore a mask.”
― Deborah Levy, August Blue

“I’d been on my own for ages, and I was convinced that there was no way I could be any more alone, but now I’d finally realized how alone I truly was. Despite the crowds of people, and all the different places, and a limitless supply of sounds and colors packed together, there was nothing here that I could reach out and touch.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“My life is nowhere but here, and I am nowhere else.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“Why does the night have to be so beautiful?”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night